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> LETTER FROM RET. MARINE CSM AND RET. MARINE MAJOR

2 September 2004, 22:09

It took a lot of courage for your son to speak out against the war. I am in total agreemnt with you. Men and women who still have an alegiance to the Army, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard, Reservists, and National Guard men and women do not have the freedom to speak out with out getting slammed with an Article 15. But it might interest you to know that two cases have been filed in federal court to put and end to the no stop order of the day. One judge issued a restraining order against the Army, and the other judge is waiting to hear further arguments from the Army, but the court has issued an order not to deploy him back to Iraq until the case is heard in full.
If these two brave men win their cases in federal court it will affect some 20,000 men and women who are waiting to be deployed. The no stop order is a back door, back to the old Draft system that was in place during the Vietnam War. Then it was dropped and the no stop order took it’s place during the Gulf War.
I will keep your son and your family in my heart, and will remember all of you in my prayers.
It’s tiime we put an end to the George W Bush, Dick Cheney’s and the Colin Powell’s in this world, but I don’t want to leave out the other maggot John Ashcroft. He knows where he can put his Patriot Act. Right up there where the sun doesn’t shine. IMPEACH BUSH!

Stephen R H