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Ex-National Guard Members Protest Bush

HeadlineSep 15, 2004

While President Bush addressed members of the National Guard in Las Vegas yesterday, a group called * Military Guard Families Speak Out* held a press conference nearby to criticize the invasion of iraq. Among the speakers was Dante Zappala, who lost his brother Sherwood Baker in Iraq. Dante said, “My brother died trying to make an honest man of George Bush, hoping to find those illusive weapons of mass destruction. I don’t blame George Bush for his death. But I do believe that our President was careless with his responsibility to our troops. He has not supported our troops, but has used them to satisfy a very reckless agenda.”

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