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My Old Gig - Governor Gregoire - WA National Guard in Second Deployment to Iraq

By Lietta Ruger
Wed Jul 16, 2008 at 08:35:20 PM PST
Section: Washington State Topic: Military

WA National Guard is being deployed to Iraq for the second time. They are training now (downfield) in Yakima and will deploy to Iraq in August.  Wildfires in Spokane required Governor Gregoire's attention.  A reporter type person, Kevin Taylor, in Spokane from The Pacific Northwest Inlander phoned me with questions because my name came up in a google search he was doing.  Showed some of my activities in speaking out against Iraq war.  Specifically of interest to him was the meeting we (military families) had with Governor Gregoire's office in March 2005 presenting her with the Resolution to Bring Home the WA National Guard

Same story only now it's going on six years later ---

read the article he wrote at The Pacific Northwest Inlander here.

I'm impressed because he quoted a lot of what I said accurately. And I said a lot. Which means he was likely accurate in quoting Governor Gregoire and military spouse, Becky Smith.

< Less than 4 months to go | because Hanoi on his resume somehow instilled in him commander-in-chief ability. >
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Excellent story by Kevin Taylor
For years I've been reading about the dangers of having the National Guard diverted from its mission at home and commandeered to be deployed overseas.  It's the theme of this Bush administration -- running roughshod over the democratic checks and balances -- and the American public hardly noticing.  

by noemie maxwell on Thu Jul 17, 2008 at 08:46:09 AM PST

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