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It is it is barely there, but it is unmistakable. It is the beginning of the process whereby the magnetic ribbon crowd starts to parse and qualify it's support for the troops as it becomes apparent that the troops will soon be close at home, as opposed to overseas. It is a lot easier for these people to offer unconditional support to the troops when they are in Iraq; it's different when they come home, looking for jobs, with messy physical and psychological problems.
It remains to be seen whether we will continue to support our troops when they need it the most; after the war. I hope that the majority of our citizens will not follow Mr. Rumsfeld's example.
The difference between soldiers killed and injured in action and killed and injured in accidents or by disaease is not "...a nontrivial difference", the real difference is that they're over there, by choice, serving our country. They are willfully exposing themselves to harm, regardles of its source.
