[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] No War on Iran demo in Chicago

[Karen Medina]

> Jenifer wrote; the current admin (and Repos, including McCain) were unwilling 
> to give returning service men and women college op$, because that would 
> make it unnecessary for folks to re-up, which would deplete the military

They could always work for the private militias, prison guards, local police, 
border patrol, NSA, Homeland Security.

* Bring them home, 
* Give them the benefits the military promised them including college and 
health care, and 
* Train them as health care and mental health care workers (professionals that 
they will need). 
* Also train them as drug abuse treatment workers

-karen medina
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:05:25 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] No War on Iran demo in Chicago  
>To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net, kmedina at illinois.edu
>
>The present admin only continued what the Clinton admin started -- NAFTA 
(and  welfare to work my foot). The line went something like this: "The Clinton 
Admin  created 2 million new jobs!" "Yeah, I know. my wife and I each have three 
of  them."                                                                            
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>And re the military (w/ so many joining for financial reasons, as you say,        
>Karen): the current admin (and Repos, including McCain) were unwilling to give    
>returning service men and women college op$, because that would make it           
>unnecessary for folks to re-up, which would deplete the military (all-
volunteer  military my foot).                                                                
> --Jenifer                                                                        
>                                                                                  
>--- On Sat, 7/26/08, Karen Medina <kmedina at illinois.edu> wrote:                   
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>  From: Karen Medina <kmedina at illinois.edu>                                       
>  Subject: [Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] No War on Iran demo in Chicago             
>  To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net                                                  
>  Date: Saturday, July 26, 2008, 10:41 AM                                         
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> cge and mkb were writing about Code Pink's waffling and Medea Benjamin's         
> statement:                                                                       
> >"Itʼs not enough to simply say 'Troops out now.' Should we                     
> be calling for talks with the Taliban? ... Should we advocate a timeline for the 
> withdrawal of U.S. troops and if so, based on what criteria?"                    
>                                                                                  
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> About a year ago I was participating in a campus demonstration spearheaded 
by    
> the Green party students but with loads of other groups participating. They      
> wanted one of the "demands" to be "troops out now". It was                       
> fairly easy to convince them that it should be "troops home now".                
>                                                                                  
> Bring them home now. But even this I say with a little shudder -- the load on    
> society when they do come home is going to be tremendous. You of course 
realize  
> who we send when it is an all-volunteer operation: young people who felt 
that    
> their job prospects were not so good to start with. Now they will be coming 
home 
> damaged as well as jobless. Oh the things this administration has done to 
ruin   
> our young people and the economy. Heartbreaking.                                 
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> -karen medina                                                                    
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