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Rumfeld extends military in Iraq. The Military is short on trooops and are going to extend the combat tour over the present two year. The military does not have the man power (or womenpower) to fill the combat and admistrative. Some combat soldiers are returning frm Iraq and learn they have been assigned to a military unit that will be going to Iraq in four months. In other words, 4 months home and then back to Iraq. The Army is paying minories and women more to join the Army that the Army pays White recruits. What is wrong with this...

All my life, I believed in Republican values -- individual responsibility and limited government. Then it happened; I found myself with a small child, unemployed and disabled. I turned to my church, and after years of regular tithes, suddenly I just wasn't their problem. My Republican friends? I was now a pariah to them. My only relief was to turn to government assistance for housing, food, and other needs and I was able to survive with dignity. So chalk me up as one who no longer drinks the GOP koolaid.