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“When I came back from Iraq the first time, we had staff sergeants who committed suicide for no explainable reason,” Grainger said.

Today, there is even more stress on Marines as they battle a foe that hides among the local population.

“Now, some of the kids in Fallujah are starting to throw grenades at us. That’s something Marines are starting to think about and it bothers them,” Grainger said.

Elsewhere: Dick Cheney is spending his time in his undisclosed location bunker 500feet below the ground because deep down he's a nice guy.

4. Congress and the public are entitled to a thorough independent investigation to determine whether George W. Bush and the civil officers of his administration have led the United States into aggressive war against the nation of Afghanistan and against the nation of Iraq in violation of the United Nations Charter Art. 24, the Nuremberg Charter, and other international instruments and treaties, without a declaration of war as required by the Constitution of the United States.

5. To accomplish this preemptive war, the Bush administration has been accused of committing numerous unlawful acts including making false statements to Congress, the United Nations, and the US public, accusing Afghanistan and then Iraq of relations with Osama Bin Ladin and support for the 9/11 attack; accusing Iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction; of constituting an imminent threat to the safety of the United States, its peoples, and property, and its interests elsewhere in the world, which alleged threat they knew to be false or for which they knew they had no reliable evidence; acting to deprive U. S. citizens and legal residents of their constitutional rights; authorizing direct attacks in Iraq on civilians, civilian facilities, and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable, including the use of cluster bombs, designed to spread small explosive devices at substantial distances from the putative target. The dministration’s acts have caused and continue to cause numerous US, British, and Iraqi casualties.

“In asking that question through the chain of command, the response I get is that it’s important to manage the Army flows in such a way that we can sustain our efforts, and they believe — they being the planners in the Army itself — the best way to do it is for a year. And therefore … my answer to the troop is that really depends on what the leadership recommends.”

wtf?