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On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 22:42:23 -0400, Slim <slim@pickins.com> wrote:

>On 2007-07-07 21:16:09 -0400, leroyblue@pillinor.net said:
>
>> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 22:14:33 -0400, Slim <slim@pickins.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2007-07-06 19:17:21 -0400, leroyblue@pillinor.net said:
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:29:59 -0500, David Agnew
>>>> <DavidAgnew@nospam.nul> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Republicans don't deal in facts; only lies.
>>>> 
>>>> If the conversation is with a democrap that all there is to deal with.
>>>> You'd rather climb eight flights of stairs to tell a lie than stand in
>>>> the lobby and tell the truth.
>>> 
>>> You and your ilk would start a war rather than earn your money like 
>>> everyone else.
>> 
>> No, we commit to defend the Constitution from you and your Islamic
>> jihad brothers in arms.
>
>How can you and your ilk pretend to "defend" the Constitution when
>the Bush Administration has done all they can to circumvenent it?


Every person in the military is defending the Constitution and they do
so proudly. You, of course, never having been anything but a civilian
wouldn't understand that.

Mass Re-Enlistment Ceremony in Iraq

American Forces Press Service  |  By Meghan Vittrup  |  July 04, 2007

WASHINGTON � More than 600 troops are expected to re-enlist today, and
more than 100 others will become U.S. citizens in an Independence Day
ceremony at Camp Victory, Iraq.

Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of Multinational Force Iraq,
made the announcement yesterday during an interview on Bill Bennett's
nationally syndicated radio program.

Petraeus and his senior enlisted leader, Army Command Sgt. Maj. Marvin
Hill, decided to hold this year's ceremony after the success of a
previous ceremony in 2003 for the 101st Airborne Division.

"On the Fourth of July back in 2003, we had a re-enlistment ceremony.
The idea was we would try to get 101, given the unit designation, to
raise their right hand. And I think we had something like 150 that
did," Petraeus said. "I think it's going to be somewhere close to 600
Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines who are going to raise their
right hand on the Fourth of July here and sign up for another tour in
the armed forces."

Many non-citizen servicemembers in Iraq also will become citizens
during the event.

"There is going to be a citizenship ceremony, as well, which will be
exciting. A lot of great young men and women in uniform who I can't
say are Americans yet, but they are serving and they have the American
flag on their right shoulder. They have served our country, and now
they will truly become citizens of our country as well," Petraeus
said.