At 02:00 PM 4/2/2003 -0800 Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
>> Many of the soldiers who are now in Iraq or preparing to go are not
>> full-time members of the armed forces but rather are members of the
>> National Guard or Reserve who have full-time civilian jobs
>> and who drill
>> with their military units on weekends. Those people have had
>> to leave
>> their families and put their regular lives on hold.
>
>While that's tough on them and their families, it /is/ what they signed up
to do.
That does not mean that making them sit indefinitely in the Kuwaiti desert
is without great cost - either to them and their families, or to the US
economy as a whole.
JDG
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it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03
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