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Yawn

This is getting really boring, bigbrother. You're beginning to parse your words like a Clinton.

Just to review - I posted the article, you criticized it. I said you were shooting the messenger and even asked a series of questions (indicated by the ? at the end of them) that you could have resonded to, but you didn't. Instead, you then attacked the article further and attacked me; still without responding to the actual claims of the article and indicating that I was somehow the problem because ''we all know your motives here.'' (Talk about assuming...) I then pointed out what I was talking about and you once again avoided the subject by hiding behind the ''you can't trust the media'' claim and pretending that you're just ''questioning.''

Questioning or not, you've now had three chances to respond to what's actually in the article. We know for a fact that at least one soldier is being impacted by this decision. To me, that's one to many. And you know what they say about smoke and fire.

So I'll once again make my point (and then I'm sure you'll do whatever parsing of your words that you need to do to make yourself feel better): This is a shameful situation. I don't care if you're a Democrat or Republican, a war supporter or not, this is a shameful situation.

Now go ahead and parse away, bigparser. I'm sure you're going to.

It looks

as though it is true, bigbrother, and the Pentagon is admitting their mistake and making it right.

I do find this shameful

If you buy an expensive golf club then get angry your first time out with it and you wrap it around a tree, you can't take it back to the store and get your money back, you damaged it. If the goverment gives a bonus to a soldier, them puts them into harms way, they can't get their money back. Maybe they need to do more to protect their investment. I see this as an abomination.

Let's investigate further:

Asking any wounded vet to return any part of their enlistment bonus is not the right thing to do, but...
Assuming this is a decision made by the Bush administration is quite a leap.
I'm going to investigate, but I believe I'll find that Congress, at some time, passed a law allowing the payment of re-enlistment bonuses. In any law/legislation are details and stipulations that determine how the law is to be executed.
There were undoubtedly some restrictions and imperitives placed within the re-enlistment bonus legislation that called for reimbursement, if the soldier/sailer could not complete the enlistment.
Let's find out what caused the ''Pentagon'' to bill this guy. Then place the blame where it belongs. That's the kind of investigative work that should have been done by CBS or any other journalist before publishing any story. I've noticed that most of these types of ''look what they've done now'' stories eventually prove out to be somewhat less sensational than they originally appear to be. I'll report back after I finish my investigation.