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[kayob1]

Both my sons and my daughter-in-law were in the Army last fall - one son at Fort Lewis, and my other son (who had just gotten out of the Army) was in the National Guard at Fort Riley attending school - he was waiting for his wife to get out of the Army in April.

My Fort Lewis son was toting around a beeper and couldn't go any farther than 100 miles from the base. My daughter-in-law was busy training the reservists that had replaced most of the people in her unit because, gee, most of her unit had already been deployed - guess where? And this was around September/October last year.

Now just from those two pieces of information, I was able to - correctly - conclude that the War in Iraq was already a done deal - all the rest was just pretty much talk about bogus issues. So my question would be if I - a singularly uninformed (don't watch TV, don't read newspapers, etc.) less-than-intelligent high school graduate - could figure this out why the HELL couldn't Kerry or anybody else who voted for this resolution figure this out??

I would also like to note that my ex-husband - the Purple Heart Vietnam frontline combat infantryman, yada, yada, yada - was drafted. He actually volunteered for the draft. That really looks good on paper, but I kind of chuckle when people start flinging words like "coward" around about "draft dodgers" - the reason he volunteered for the draft was his lawyer advised him to volunteer so he could get out of a grand theft auto charge. It worked, too!!