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Remember when the liberals ripped Bush apart because there weren't enough National Guardsmen to help in disasters because they're off in Iraq/Kuwait? Now Hussein has promised an all-out effort to help Haiti. We just had the biggest national guard deployment since World War II in Florida...the state closest to Haiti. So when will the liberal media (national and local) ask if Hussein's troop surge is hindering our efforts to help our neighbors?

Lee County soldier dies in Afghanistan accident THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. AUGUSTINE -- A Special Forces and emergency room doctor from southwest Florida who gave up his officer's status to go with his unit died Friday in a vehicle crash in Afghanistan, Florida National Guard officials said. Sgt. Roy Alvin Wood, 47, of Alva, accepted a demotion from major to sergeant so he could go with his unit, Company C of the 20th Special Forces Group, when it deployed in July. Wood is the first soldier from the Florida National Guard to die in Afghanistan, said Maj. Ron Tittle, a...