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contacted by email at , or by phone at european and Pacific stars and stripes 2007 stars and stripes web site letters to the editor global warming hype it seems some of our educators Are fail ing to pay attention to All the information available about the global warming fact there is no crisis it scares me that educators May be peddling this dog squeeze in the the truth the Earth goes through cycles of warming and Cooling without any help from sport Utility vehicle Massachusetts Institute of technology did a study to find that Only 5 percent of Carbon dioxide is caused by the rest comes from natural such As volcanoes and dying fact volcanoes pro Duce More Carbon dioxide than All mans i am an avid outdoors love to Camp and i believe in maintaining a clean Mit is the to rated technical College in the i dont like it when global warming zealots Force what they think to be True on All of us with no Mark Jennrich Forward operating base Iraq tattoos dont make the Soldier in response to tattooed soldiers look june who is the sergeant major to judge people and what they do with their bodies what May look silly or ridiculous to him May be perfectly Normal for Hes been in the army Long enough to know that tattoos and the military pretty much go hand in this int something i understand times Are changing and have come a Long Way since his time when it was Cool to Roll a pack of Marlboro in his White shirt How has he made it this far in the military when it seems he cant adapt and overcome i am covered in tattoos and i could sol Dier with the Best when i was the Rea son i got out was the new army is Way too soft because of people like the letter let soldiers be soldiers and do their the uniform and the soldiers make them a not their Paul Terrock Camp Kuwait Why were in Iraq i would like to address the growing con Cern of soldiers serving in Iraq asking Why they Are was a difficult and fearful were struggling to collect information on the who and we were Able to obtain enough evidence that Osama bin Laden was the planner for the we deployed our military to search for him in new Evi Dence turned up pointing to Iraq being involved in 11 and weapons of mass destruction it has been discovered that the evidence Tell us what you think stars and stripes welcomes your comments on editorials arid columns that Are published in the and values letters on topics of importance in the lives of our All letters must be signed 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 stars and stripes unit 29480 Apoate 09211 International mail stars and stripes Postrach 1330 64345 Griesheim via fax country code 0 Dan 3498395 email we had on Iraq was unfortunately incur while a disappointing we Are unable to leave As the standing government was no longer effective to sup port its terrorists and free Dom fighters used this Opportunity to de Clare America As we could just leave however there would be too High of a Chance to produce a hotbed for a future problem for America and Western not enough questions and too much action have developed into our current Politi Cal and military As our govern ment sits Down to figure it you Are its not that they dont care about they want it done Many of us in Iraq know the current government is in its infant our government wants to Fin ish Iraq to Benefit both our interests and the interests of Iraq is a problem we developed in an unfortunate which we would Hope would not be left As something much Michael Galde Camp Iraq Gas Price gouging Law everybody complains of Gas prices in but How Many people besides me take the time to Contact their Congress men i feel everybody should they Are elected to serve Michigan democratic Bart Stupak is introducing legislation to make gastric gouging a Federal i Hope the army and air Force Exchange service is taken to task on that one surely our tax free Gas prices would sink to plus Small John Grinsel Germany cafes prices downrange i do try and recognize what the army and air Force Exchange sender does for i see what it says it did in Europe on american forces it is one of doonesbury its often then i see what it has done Here in now there Are More cafes shoppers in Europe than Here in Europe is not a trapped target if the military wants to buy something what Type of competitive business can compare it to cafes has us exactly where it wants just where is the rest of the monies for the soldiers going from Iraq is it going to the european coffers we Are not saving it on the majority of items Man fac example a big bag of cheese Ritz crackers is marked 99 cents and Sells for that at Stop go in Texas and at the Post Exchange in Iraq and a lot fresher in cigarette tax in Texas for a conventional package of 20 cigarettes is per there is no tax stamp on pm that is almost profit per As the Price of a Carton of Marl Boros is about the same in cafes goes where the soldiers with its hands on their wallets Richard Martin Camp Cedar Iraq finding missing troops is our leadership diminishing have we developed Tunnel vision when it comes to our Day today or do we simply not care Call me set in my ways or whatever you want being a former ser Vic member retired and currently serving in Iraq As a department of de sense i have never lost sight of my duties and unless responsibilities of leaders have changed since i retired some 10 years we owe it to our service members and their families to place taking care of their Well being As a top accountability of personnel and equip ment should be first and Foremost in our minds at All if it is we have our priorities i am saddened for the countless num Bers of service members lives that Are due to thoughtless decisions made by their Chain of by not being Able to locate them in a timely i am deeply saddened that a time honoured corps has diminished to spineless leaders not demanding and holding higher ranks accountable for providing some Type of Slojack tracking device to locate service members missing or unaccounted we have global positioning system tracking and devices for our we have the most advanced technology Money can and we cannot locate ser Vic members for Days on our method is to place in harms Way More service members to attempt to locate them in Hope we find them while wasting valuable this does not can someone make me understand is Cost an Issue to provide such technology what is the value we place on a human life Keith Mcmurray Camp Iraq by Garry Trudeau time for things w than which which one
