Amid sobs and waving American flags, hundreds of Maryland Army National Guard soldiers bid goodbye to family and friends yesterday and prepared to deploy to Iraq, part of the Guard's largest deployment from the state since World War II.
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Many of them had returned from a year's deployment in Iraq as recently as May 2006.
Meanwhile, several miles away their Commander Guy bravely went on yet another vacation at Camp David where his every whim, need and want was brought to his pampered ass.
I wonder if anyone told these soldiers today that the CIA told the Preznit Happy Holidaze in January 2003 (and probably earlier) that he'd be sending everyone elses kids but not his into a meat-grinder in Iraq? Probably not. Sometimes there are just things you don't want to know.
