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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-12-03 06:55 PM
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Anbody got a link to that Army Times editorial?
The one that bashes the Bush's?
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-12-03 06:58 PM
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1. Check DailyKos
they reprinted it maybe a week or so ago.
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jab105 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-12-03 07:00 PM
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2. This one?
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=0-ARMYPAPER-1954515.php

(from the article...)
In recent months, President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress have missed no opportunity to heap richly deserved praise on the military. But talk is cheap - and getting cheaper by the day, judging from the nickel-and-dime treatment the troops are getting lately.

For example, the White House griped that various pay-and-benefits incentives added to the 2004 defense budget by Congress are wasteful and unnecessary - including a modest proposal to double the $6,000 gratuity paid to families of troops who die on active duty. This comes at a time when Americans continue to die in Iraq at a rate of about one a day.

Similarly, the administration announced that on Oct. 1 it wants to roll back recent modest increases in monthly imminent-danger pay (from $225 to $150) and family-separation allowance (from $250 to $100) for troops getting shot at in combat zones.

Then there's military tax relief - or the lack thereof. As Bush and Republican leaders in Congress preach the mantra of tax cuts, they can't seem to find time to make progress on minor tax provisions that would be a boon to military homeowners, reservists who travel long distances for training and parents deployed to combat zones, among others.

more (click on link above)....
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-12-03 07:03 PM
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4. Wow
They put it back. DK mirrored it because it was pulled. The chimp really is losing his teflon. Wow.
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Noordam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-12-03 07:02 PM
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3. Here is the Link
I had emailed it to a father whose son is in Iraq.

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=0-ARMYPAPER-1954515.php
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ShaneGR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-12-03 07:08 PM
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5. THANKS
Much appreciated.
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