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To Protect and Serve?

Well here's an infuriating example of the hypocrisy of the Bush administration and the war on some drugs. It seems 21 soldiers in Iowa, who served our country in Iraq, will be dishonorably discharged when they return home after their tour of duty for failing a drug test before they were shipped out.

These National Guardsmen were not discharged or put through rehab at the time of the drug tests. Guard officials say that's because deployment schedules didn't allow for it.

So in other words, the military was in such a hurry to get their warm bodies over to Iraq, they didn't have time to punish them before they left; but now these men, after risking their lives for Bush's imperialist agenda, will lose all their benefits by being dishonorably discharged months after the fact.

Zero tolerance apparently only kicks in, if you actually survive your tour of duty. One wonders what would have happened if they were killed in action. Would their families have been denied survivor benefits under the same criteria?

This is so patently cruel and unfair it leaves me speechless.

[Thanks to the Vig for the link]