Now is not the time to close bases, ... With almost 140,000 American troops serving in Iraq, 17,000 American troops serving in Afghanistan and more than 60,0000 troops on the ground or aboard ships helping with relief and recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina, our military is already overstreched.
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I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry and learn more and more about his message that they're going to want a President who is willing to address the fact that we didn't have a post-war plan in Iraq.Harold Ford
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I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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We offer individual counseling and some group counseling.
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We failed ... when we didn't help the people who didn't have the means to get out of New Orleans. We, as a nation, over the last several years have contributed to widening the gap between poor and rich people. It took a natural disaster to really bring this to light.
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