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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 12:07 PM
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AP features Pro** military reaction to the speech.
"They ain't liberated. If they were liberated we wouldn't still be there," said Crawley, of Charlotte, N.C. "They're not free."

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"Like any Marine, you do the job until it's done. You don't just do it halfway and leave," said Anderson, a Houston native who said he is scheduled to leave for Iraq soon.

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"To have my children have to hear, 'Oh well, we shouldn't be over there,' I think that's very degrading" to members of the military, Jennifer Webster said as she played with the couple's 5-month-old son and 2-year-old daughter.

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Metzdorf, 28, of Altamonte Springs, Fla., has rejoined the 82nd Airborne since losing his leg and said Bush delivered the right message: "We're doing a great job over there, but the job is not over with."

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Metzdorf, 28, of Altamonte Springs, Fla., has rejoined the 82nd Airborne since losing his leg and said Bush delivered the right message: "We're doing a great job over there, but the job is not over with."
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jojo54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 12:26 PM
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1. They can say anything they want.......
the fact is, the war(mongorer) isn't over yet because there's still more oil. I don't know when the hard-core conservatives will finally realize that. Some never will, I'm afraid.
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