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GCP

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Sun Mar-05-06 09:51 AM
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My heart breaks every Sunday

When "In Memorium" comes on "This Week" - all those 19, 20 and 21 year old kids who have had their brief lives cut short by these maniacs in charge of the country.

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Droopy

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Sun Mar-05-06 09:57 AM
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1. You and me both

I haven't seen the program that you are speaking of, but when I think of all those people who have had their lives cut short, especially for an unnecessary war, it makes me sad. When I was around 20 I hadn't really started living yet and enjoying life. I'm 33 and I'm just now getting my head screwed on right.

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ChairmanAgnostic

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Sun Mar-05-06 09:58 AM
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2. The same thing happens when I watch the News Hour on PBS.

The AGES of these kids, fer kryst's sake. They are but kids! 19, 20, 21 years old, and sent to a premature death by Bush assholes, rich, spoiled maniacs who never saw a day of combat.

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WePurrsevere

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Sun Mar-05-06 11:00 AM
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7. That's the one I watch as well. I see the young just starting to live &

the older ones that may be leaving behind children who will never know there "Mommy or Daddy" because this LYING Fascist Traitor wanted to play "war president".

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Bullwinkle925

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Sun Mar-05-06 09:58 AM
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3. Yes - memories of Viet Nam and the nightly body bag shots come

to mind - only difference here is that we are reduced to scrolling names of just some of the dead - every family who suffers loss does not get their 'just due' or respect from this White House media.

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Democrat 4 Ever

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Sun Mar-05-06 10:01 AM
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4. I'm with you. I hate Snufflelumpuss' program but always tune in

to catch the "In Memoriam" portion of the show. I feel such sorrow, pain for the families and friends of our military. And bottomless rage at this bunch of a$$wipes who got us into this mess to begin with. How anyone can watch those few minutes of the show and not be ready to impeach the entire bunch in DC is beyond me.

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Flubadubya

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Sun Mar-05-06 10:08 AM
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5. "In Memorium" is now censored...

When they first started doing this piece Stephanopolus would announce the name of every military person known to have been killed during the week. Then after a few months he began to announce that his list was of those names "released by the Pentagon this week". The Pentagon's "list" lags woefully behind the actual number of known dead for the week, thus making it appear that fewer died than really did.

There had to have been a direct order to Mr. Steph. to toe the line and only release the official Pentagon accounting, and, of course, George eagerly acquiesced to Big Gov. :puke:

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Southern Marylander

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Sun Mar-05-06 10:53 AM
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6. or

There had to have been a direct order to Mr. Steph. to toe the line and only release the official Pentagon accounting, and, of course, George eagerly acquiesced to Big Gov
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Might be that the government does not want there to be a chance that the family finds out on tv that their son/father/daughter/mother has been killed in action.
The pentagon list might be only those people whose families have been notified

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