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will happen even when their commanders in the field now concede there are large parts of the country under the control of Islamic insurgents.
Worse yet, Bush and Cheney have stretched our military dangerously thin, making it tough to meet a challenge from Iran or North Korea—two nations who undisputedly possess weapons of mass destruction. This administration has treated our active duty military personnel in a most shabby manner by forcing returning veterans to pay, for the first time ever, a fee for medical care, and by cutting $150 per month from the extra pay combat soldiers’ families receive, calling the expenditure “wasteful and unnecessary.”
Why did so many soldiers’ families back here in the
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