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War on Iraq

Volunteer Soldiers Devastated by Iraq Weren't "Asking for It"

By Stacy Bannerman, AlterNet. Posted March 10, 2007.


"They volunteered, didn't they?" is a common sneering response to the stories about National Guardsmen whose lives were destroyed by Iraq -- the truth is that going to war is not what they signed up for.

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Stacy Bannerman is a contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus (www.fpif.org). Her book, "When the War Came Home: The Inside Story of Citizen Soldiers and the Families Left Behind," will be released by Continuum Publishing in 2006.

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