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    <updated>2009-11-13T03:32:47Z</updated> 
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        <name>Franklin A. Eckrode Sr</name>
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        <title>Political Correctness Killed Our Soldiers @ Hood</title>   
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         How did Major Hasan slip though the cracks, get a bad OER and still get promoted?  Here&#39;s how, the Army board is centralized, only so many officers can be selected for promotion, each person is looked at and scored, once all eligible are scored th...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Lets Quit the Foot Dragging!!!!</title>   
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        <published>2009-10-29T01:42:18Z</published>
        <updated>2009-10-29T01:45:19Z</updated>
    
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          The Commnder in Chief fired a General and placed the one he wanted in Afghanistan, 40+K Troops were requested in August by his hand picked man.  It is now almost November and still no decision made.  This month has been the deadlist on record for...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>A History Lesson is Needed by the Government in Relation to Afghanistan</title>   
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        <published>2009-10-05T01:41:28Z</published>
        <updated>2009-10-05T20:06:14Z</updated>
    
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          Although I have only a BS in Liberal Arts as a degree, I was only one course away from having a degree in American History, my focus was American Military history.  I was an A student in my history courses with an overall GPA of 3.93, so I know s...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Afghanistan?????</title>   
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        <published>2009-10-02T01:04:23Z</published>
        <updated>2009-10-02T10:32:26Z</updated>
    
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         Time to rant again..........over two years ago I talked to Sen Wyden (D) Oregon and his aides about the strategy in Afghanistan and the fact the 24K troops wasn&#39;t enough to fight a war considering that we had 35+K troops in Korea to enforce a 50 y...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Hypocrites</title>   
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        <published>2009-08-11T02:34:51Z</published>
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          Now Pelosi says we are un-american, guess it&#39;s american if the opposing view kicks the crap out of someone for expresing their views under constitutional  (see previous posts) http://frank002.vox.com/library/post/who-really-is-using-brown-shirt-t...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Now David Axlerod is my Friend?</title>   
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        <published>2009-08-11T02:00:15Z</published>
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          Now David Axlerod addresses me as friend, Don&#39;t get it, he hasn&#39;t sent me a pic of his girl friends titties, that&#39;s what my friends do.  Man I&#39;m getting tired of their spam, if we complain and disagree the speaker labels us as un-american, but it...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Half Truth</title>   
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        <published>2009-08-11T01:52:41Z</published>
        <updated>2009-08-11T01:55:33Z</updated>
    
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          This link is only half truth,to me the same as lying.  The bill (see previous post http://frank002.vox.com/library/post/health-care-bill-abandons-promises-made-to-veterans.html to read the language) leaves it open for the executive branch to deci...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Who really is using brown shirt tactics?</title>   
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        <published>2009-08-08T01:23:43Z</published>
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          Pelosi claims conservative protesters are Nazi&#39;s, not real, calls them astroturf, the DNC refers to them as right wing extremists, a WA Congressman suggested that they are like Timothy McVeigh, but I have yet to see any reports of them resorting ...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>Wow, if you oppose them and put it in writing they want someone to report you</title>   
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        <published>2009-08-07T00:46:15Z</published>
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          http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/   Well I say let them explain the difference in what he is saying http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/What-Health-Reform-Means-for-Veterans/ and what is proposed in the bill in the house on hea...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>I&#39;m Pissed, if you email the Whitehouse to Complain they Spam You</title>   
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        <published>2009-07-29T23:57:57Z</published>
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              I wrote the Whitehouse to complain about what was in the health care bill and now they have begun spamming me.  This is bullshit, I&#39;m pissed, I requested a response to my concerns and still have not got that, they just used it to add me to th...   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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