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Originally Posted by Rdr4evr
Someone please explain this to me? Didn't he cut the troops' pay?
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Google is your friend.
http://www.dfas.mil/money/milpay/priorpay/
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http://www.dfas.mil/money/milpay/pay/2004paytable.pdf
E5 over 8, went from $1855.80 in 2001 to $2250.90 in 2004. Nope, not a cut.
Housing has improved greatly. BONUS programs are everywhere.
I only WISH I had the chance to make the money that these people are now. Unfortunately, the demands of some of the jobs are greater now.
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Originally Posted by Rdr4evr
The world was far less dangerous before you came into power, and Saddam was not a danger to the WORLD.
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And he came to power before 911. Saddam was only a danger to his own people (so far as I can tell, his neighboring countries and other may disagree) and the integrity of the United Nations.
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Originally Posted by Rdr4evr
Saddam Hussein who has never attacked America was in the right interest of our security? What happened to Bin Laden, the man who DID attack America, he obviously is not in the "right interest of our security."
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BL will be found if alive. Things take time. Our people are working on it. Can you not accept that he is either dead and gone or hiding in a hole smaller than SH's?
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Originally Posted by Rdr4evr
Thinking is a lot different than knowing.
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I have found that people that are critical of other peoples errors generally didn't have to make the decision before the outcome. Hindsight is.....