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Randy Rhodes, Mike Maloy, Countdown with Keith Ulerman, The New York Times, The Sam

Theater Show, Let's Show, and The Young Turks.

I saw this letter this morning from a young Marine that just blew my mind really, you know,

this is like George Bush's worst nightmare, is a young Marine who's been in Iraq who has

a sense of history and is sick of the lies and knows how to write.

This is a guy, his name is Philip Martin, he's been a Marine for two years, he's an infantry

guy, he's a grunt, he's a ground pounder, he has been in 180 combat patrols, he's been

on 180 combat patrols, he's seen two improvised explosive devices explode, thank God he's

not been injured yet, he has been in countless fire fights, he's currently out of Iraq, but

his second deployment is coming up on April of 2007, he's due to go back to Iraq and

he's 21 years old, it's only 21 years old, and listen to what he wrote, I'm sick and

tired of this patriotic nationalistic fascist crap, I stood through a memorial service

today for a young Marine that was killed in Iraq back in April, during this memorial,

a number of people spoke about the guy and his sacrifice for the country, how do you justify

sacrifice in your life for a war, which is not only illegal, but is being prosecuted

to the extent where the only thing keeping us there is one man's power and his ego.

A recent Marine Corps intelligence report was leaked that said that the war in our

Ambar province is unwindable, it said there was nothing we could do to win the hearts of

our minds or the military operations in that area, so I wonder why we still there, democracy

is not forced upon people at gunpoint, it's the result of four thinking individuals who

take the initiative and risks to give their fellow countrymen a better way of life.

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