JQ. I ran across that article by the soldier a few weeks back when it was published in the Los Angeles Times but thought it unwise to post it seeing as how anything critical of the operation over there is instantly attacked as demoralizing. Seeing as how it's only one soldiers opinion and all, the only value it can add is to demonstrate that not all soldiers over there are Republicans in favor of the war. So I chose to keep it to myself. It only reinforces my beleifs and the accounts I've read that soldiers there are fed up with the lies, the length of duty there, the streched resources, and the occupation itself and increasing hostilty by Iraqi's who want them gone ASAP. As Rob has stated many times over though, I'm sure you can dig up polls and other soldiers who'll tell a totally different story about how welcome we are over there. All the article does do though is show that the military isn't one homogenous bloc who'll vote and beleive in lock-step.

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"'Iraq could decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group or individual terrorists,' President Bush said in Cincinnati on October 7.... But declassified portions of a still-secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released Friday by the White House show that at the time of the president's speech the U.S. intelligence community judged that possibility to be unlikely. In fact, the NIE, which began circulating October 2, shows the intelligence services were much more worried that Hussein might give weapons to al Qaeda terrorists if he were facing death or capture and his government was collapsing after a military attack by the United States." - Walter Pincus; The Washington Post (July 21)