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Veterans

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1. More of the GOP

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sun May 25, 2014, 02:32 PM

May 2014

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"Bonus Soldiers"

"Bush's Stop The Loss's"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22sun2.html?_r=0
Stopping ‘Stop-Loss’

published: March 21, 2009

The men and women who serve in Iraq and Afghanistan have made many sacrifices over the last seven years, including repeated and extended combat deployments. So it is very good news that Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decided to phase out the deeply unpopular stop-loss program, which forces soldiers to remain in the military after their enlistments end.

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