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Last Friday night in St. Louis, George W. Bush and John Kerry swapped a predictable round of punches on issues ranging from Iraq to health care to jobs, as each candidate desperately sought to land that single, memorable haymaker that voters will replay in their heads on November 2nd. For my money, however, that defining moment came a week earlier in Miami, during the first debate - and it was a knockout blow for Kerry...
...sure who they're fighting against, or where to find them. Fearing retribution, locals are scared to be seen talking to the troops, much less providing intelligence. The insurgents themselves remove their injured or killed before they can be found. "Very few of us have ever seen one," says 2nd Lt. Brian P. Iglesias. Unlike the tactics in Fallujah, the Marines in Ramadi have not been using air strikes. It's a street-to-street battle, as much police work as anything else, which the Marines must wage without the benefit of a viable police force...
...call comes shortly before noon: Insurgents toting AK-47s and RPGs have ambushed a Marine patrol in Ramadi, wounding two soldiers. At Combat Outpost, a dusty, sun-baked base that houses two companies of the 2nd Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment, the Quick Reaction Force mounts up. Moments later, a convoy of armored Humvees, seven-ton trucks and reinforced high-backed personnel carriers tears into the streets of the long-restive town...
...possible to eliminate human error from this process, but America must do better than allowing a million votes to be lost. When Just Democracy volunteers fan out on November 2nd, they will be working with election officials to preserve the integrity of the voting process. Just Democracy volunteers will operate under a non-partisan banner because Americans of all political stripes must support the premise that an eligible voter acting within the law has the right to cast a ballot. And finally Just Democracy volunteers will be demonstrating that this generation cares about protecting the rights for which previous generations...
...George Bush 41, who urges Bush 43 (Hamlet) to heed the relative moderation and international coalition-building of his own reign and throw over Cheney, Wolfowitz and the rest of the neocon faction (Claudius) that have usurped the kingdom. This game can be played till metaphorical exhaustion, or November 2nd, whichever comes first...