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10/28/2003 Entry: "Iraq"

Demands on Military Raise Fears of 'Hollow Force' (Fox News)
Overdeployment may threaten recruitment and retention for the entire military,
particularly the National Guard and Reserve. Many reservists have been called
up twice since September 2001 to serve long periods. Since 1991, Reserve
soldiers have been deployed 10 times for operations from Bosnia to Iraq.
Most interesting is that Fox News actually reported a story like this.

Bush blames terrorists, Baathists for surge of violence in Iraq
"Basically what they're trying to do is cause people to run... That's what terrorists do,"

Well their terrorism is working. The U.N. has reduced staff, the Red Cross is
considering it. The Turks aren't planning on sending any troops.
I'd be surprised if Wolfowitz or any other senior type will be visiting any time soon.

82d Airborne soldier died of a non-hostile gunshot wound

Cher waits turn on C-SPAN call to air views on wounded troops
Cher blasts Bush over Iraq
She said a recent visit she made to see injured troops at the Walter Reed
Army Medical Centre in Washington was "the most heinous thing I have ever seen".
"I don't understand why these guys are so hidden," she said.
"Everyone had lost either one limb or two limbs.