USA Today Al Neuharth Xmas Editorial - Bring Troops Home

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/neuharth/2004-12-22-holidays-troops_x.htm

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More than a half million troops serving overseas will have little holiday happiness, especially the 138,000 in Iraq.

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Despite unhappy holidays, nearly all of us who served in WWII were proud, determined and properly armed and equipped to help defeat would-be world conquerors Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy and Hirohito in Japan.

At age 80, I'd gladly volunteer for such highly moral duty again. But if I were eligible for service in Iraq, I would do all I could to avoid it. I would have done the same during the Vietnam War, as many of the politically connected did.

"Support Our Troops" is a wonderful patriotic slogan. But the best way to support troops thrust by unwise commanders in chief into ill-advised adventures like Vietnam and Iraq is to bring them home. Sooner rather than later. That should be our New Year's resolution.

[indepat]

1. Sorry Al: we the people have ratified all this and so much more, so

get over it.