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Salon Radio: Cato's Gene Healy on domestic troop deployments

What is behind the Pentagon's new plan to deploy 20,000 U.S. Army troops inside the U.S., and what are the risks and dangers?
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  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008 12:49 PM

    It is the fact that they

    are "training" for these contingencies that concerns me. There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers stationed all over the country but they aren't "training" for these domestic contingencies. Why now? I'm trying to keep my tinfoil hat in the drawer but....there seems to be some kind of serious financial crisis or something going on.

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