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from and can be contacted by email at , or by phone at european and Pacific stars and stripes 2007 stars and stripes web site letters to the sailors leaving Early Doest Fly when i read the article Navy mulls Ca reer flexibility plan May Europe Edi i was truly As a i have been caught under and have had my soldiers get caught under i have been forced to Tell soldiers that they will not be Able to get out of the army in two months to at tend College or take their dream Job be cause we Are deploying in one month for a and the company is now under i have no problem with the other services letting their leave once their contracts have but to allow a Sailor to leave Early just be cause they want to have a family or pursue a degree is just beyond if the Navy has such an abundance of let them Send a few More to Iraq to run convoys so that soldiers can at the very least get out at the end of their warrant officer i Troy Ward fort innocent until proven guilty i thought lady Justice meant some but after Reading a report from Guantanamo i am shocked and am starting to doubt How fair the land of the free How can a person in the commit be sentenced to life after a fair trial appropriate for his but a 15yearold saudi boy who kills a Soldier because he has been brainwashed All his life about will end up in Guantanamo Bay with adult criminals i am disgusted that they put him there for suspicion of having some Al Aida dont get me if they Are they deserve to be but where is the proof even if they did something Ter they Are humans like other criminals in so they deserve no what is happening in this country Tell us what you think stars and stripes welcomes your comments on editorials and columns that Are published in the and values letters on topics of importance in the lives of our All letters must be and must include the writers address or base and Telephone please limit All letters to 300 we Reserve the right to edit letters for taste and Send your letters to mail International mail stars and stripes stars and stripes unit 29480 Postrach 1330 Apoate 09211 64345 Griesheim via fax country code 0 Dan 3498395 email when did Start treating people like locked in cells similar to kennels for 22 hours daily because they committed a crime where is the Opportunity for rehabilitation we do it with other How come we didst put the marines who killed the 14yearold iraqi girl and her family in Guantanamo Bay for five plus years before giving them a trial How is it that they get treated better because they Are americans we would have quite a few protests in the if we would put a 15yearold boy in jail for murder under the same it goes against human rights As an army spouse with a deployed i am worried about him and Dis gusted by the but lets not be blinded by people have rights and we have the obligation to give them those no matter what country they Are innocent until proven guilty Cristina Tarantino Germany Acle an oxymoron wondering How an organization can be an oxymoron its the name of this organization that the problem sues school Over distribution of Ameri can May american civil liberties this is the same organization that champions the total disarmament of teaching evolution exclusively and As and abolishing the death penalty so that we can All pay some psychos room and Board for the rest of protect ing american civil liberties in tempted to sue them for false advertising As their name is rename it the american Liberal control and ill be slightly in writing to Point put the idiocy of this its of to pass out condoms to forget about teen preg Nancy and All the psychological and emotional damage that 16yearolds hav ing abortions forget about the drama caused even when the children involved attempt to raise a child there inca Pable of supporting or the implications of single parents still in High lets Tell kids that its of to do whatever they want and Damn the to make it More Well teach evolution Well mock All Reli especially As antiquated belief and then Well impose Pur godless beliefs on everyone by Mak ing it illegal to pass out any literature we dont then Well Call ourselves the american civil liberties Union because we think americans Are too ignorant to see through our smoke Wake people this has been done be ill give yall a hint right before the second world seems to me this country a lot less free than it used to i have just one question for the Acle int Freedom of re Ligion a civil too staff Gordon Childs Al Iraq for 08 different similar policies by Fred Hiatt the Washington Post you might expect the candidates in this presidential election to want to Lead the nation in radically new foreign policy the after is widely perceived to have driven the country off a you might expect a Retreat to humility and pragmatism after George Bush wildly and thus far Freedom you might also Given the bitter partisan divisions in that the two parties would offer programs differing radically from each and you might figure if anyone is positioned to strike out in such new it would be Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt neither of whom is burdened by much foreign policy history on the National now those two candidates have Laid out their foreign policy visions in parallel Arti released last week prior to Publica Tion in the Issue of foreign of and after you Cut through some of their Campaign heres what you find the two candidates programs Are strikingly similar to each both Are strikingly similar to Bush administration and far from retreating to isolationism in the face of Iraq and other Chal set Forth their own wildly ambitious Calls for american leadership and the promotion of american values doonesbury the two differ in some of Romney puts More emphasis on combating Radical islam and less on promoting Obama dwells More on Bush failures and the value of diplomacy and endorses a phased withdrawal of troops from but even the differences Are not As Stark As the candidates would like them to Obama would maintain in Iraq enough troops to protect american person Nel and continue training iraqi Security and Root out both want not armed forces Obama Calls for an additional ground Romney for if Iraq weary voters Are looking for someone who will Call on America to come they wont find that Candi Date by Garry Trudeau the fact they Awsumb haptomov5tda piff5kent King
