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I've been talking to a lot of our enlisted army guys since I've been canvassing for the Kerry campaign. Many of them are P.O.'d about the "now you see them, now you don't" WMD's and the fact that we are not going after Bin Laden. "You want me to go put my life on the line, at least be honest about your reasons for sending me off to war," said one. I talked to another man who said he'd always voted Republican up till now. He's a private building contracter, runs his own business. He's also in the Reserves and last year got called up on only 24 hour's notice. He lost all his bids and the jobs he'd been working on, and when he got home he lost the tax deductions on some expensive machinery he'd bought for his business because he hadn't used them for his livelyhood last year. He said, "I don't mind sacrificing for my country - that's why I signed on for the reserves in the first place, but when I get sent off somewhere on a fool's errand at great personal cost, it makes me damned angry. This whole terrorism thing/Patriot Act is destroying the country from within, not without."
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