A temporary reprieve from forced duty for the former army captain....
(The group that got our country into this quagmire under misleading and
false pretenses, almost to a man.......personally avoided military service,
and they ordered this patriot who already served 8 years in uniform, to
go serve in harm's way in Iraq for 18 more months. How about 2 years of
humanitarian service in Iraq for Bush's twin daughters, it's such a worthwhile
cause for other familys' children to serve in and die in, according to Bush,
Cheney, Perle, Rumsfeld, and Feith!)
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<a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_102404_soldierreprieve.html">http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_102404_soldierreprieve.html</a>
Reprieve for Army Captain Ordered to Iraq after Resigning
( -WABC, , 2004 ) — The government has agreed that an Army captain will not have to report for duty on Monday for an assignment to Iraq while the Army decides whether to approve his June resignation application.
Jay Ferriola, 31, appeared briefly Sunday before U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet. The judge agreed to delay action until November 1st on a lawsuit Ferriola filed against the government.
In a letter Saturday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Judd Lawler asked the judge to delay the case until the Army takes action on Ferriola's resignation letter. Lawler said the government agrees Ferriola is not required to report for duty at 7:00 a.m. Monday, as he had been told to.
Ferriola, a New York resident, finished eight years in the Army and Army Reserve in February. He said in his lawsuit that he resigned, and was told to turn in his equipment and not to report for any more monthly drills. But last week, he said, he received an order directing him to report on Monday to be assigned to duty in Iraq.
Ferriola's lawyer, Barry Slotnick, said outside court Sunday that he was "extremely optimistic" that the Army would decide in Ferriola's favor.
It probably won't be the last case of its kind. Last month, a judge ruled that an Army reservist from North Carolina must report to active duty. The reservist, Todd Parrish, had argued he had fulfilled his military obligation and sent the Army a letter resigning his commission, but the judge agreed with the Army that he could be recalled to duty because he failed to sign a resignation line on a letter asking for an update on his personal information.
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Richard Perle: Whose Fault Is He?
Consider kids who bullied Richard Perle--
Those kids who said Perle threw just like a girl,
Those kids who poked poor Perle to show how soft
A mamma's boy could be, those kids who oft-
Times pushed poor Richard down and could be heard
Addressing him as Sissy, Wimp or Nerd.
Those kids have got a lot to answer for,
'Cause Richard Perle now wants to start a war.
The message his demeanor gets across:
He'll show those playground bullies who's the boss.
He still looks soft, but when he writes or talks
There is no tougher dude among the hawks.
<b>And he's got planes and ships and tanks and guns--
All manned, of course, by other people's sons.</b>
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020916&s=trillin">by Calvin Trillin</a>
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