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On the main page click on the "Sound Off" Button on the menu bar across the top.
Below is an excerpt of one of the emails on the Sound Off page and it was also published as a LTE in the Missoulian newspaper July 20th
May 1 is long over and our kids are still being picked off in Iraq. Do you remember watching the footage of our President landing on the U.S.S. Lincoln and listening to the speech about major combat being over? While his political theatrics are being launched in hopes of getting the Popularity polls up, our sons and daughters are still in danger in Baghdad.
Let us be reminded that our President had a year-plus absence from the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War. In those days, George W. wasn't challenging Ho Chi Minh to "bring 'em on." He was hiding in some redneck bar in Alabama, working on the congressional campaign of one of his daddy's pals.
Some veterans have called that absence from duty "desertion." When our children come back, some as young as 20 years old, as combat veterans, the President cannot even pretend to have any regard for what they have been through -- the sights, the smells, the sounds they will have etched forever in their memories.
Our President continues to slash health care and benefits for veterans, while painting himself the champion of the armed forces. Yet our President reaps the 'back door benefits' of all the corporations making millions off the war. Our children will most likely see images of mangled bodies, wounded children and major destruction. But what are our Presidents priorities? Bechtel, Carlyle and Halliburton -- I guess there is profit in humanitarian relief.
Wow, talk about telling it like it is. I am thinking GeeDubya is going to be finding himself in a world of hurt before too long, and it couldn't happen to a meaner, more worthless asshole either.
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