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One Utah has a post on the Recent developments indicating the USA will be ready to launch a strategic bombardment of Iran two weeks before Election Day.

Ira Churnus writes Neocons may be Down, not Out, with a Nuclear Iran where he predicts that the U.S.’s plan is to engage in a cold war where Iran is now the boogie-man.

Today is the day that Marshall Thompson of A Soldiers Peace begins his 500 mile walk across Utah. Thompson is the former Army Journalist who spent a year in Iraq. His message:

Bring the Troops Home

The goal is to walk from the Utah/Idaho border to the Utah/Arizona border in 26 days, that’s one day for every 100 soldiers who have died in Iraq. The trip will cover almost 500 miles and I’ll have to average about 20 miles a day.

I don’t know if the walk will get the troops home. If nothing else, however, I’ll know that I did everything I could to save the lives of my brothers and sisters in Iraq.

The Assoicated Press has reported that a Recruiting Officer forged signatures for Utah minor
Army recruiting: Cases of wrongdoing have jumped since 2004 as the war has made enlisting more difficult

Here is the article:

By Russ Bynum
The Associated Press

SAVANNAH, Ga. – When Pfc. Steven Price of Utah volunteered to join the Army in January, he couldn’t do it alone. Because he’s 17, recruiters needed his parents to give their written permission.
Now, an Army spokesman says a Utah-based recruiter has admitted forging the signatures of Price’s parents to enlist him.
Price reported for duty at Fort Stewart in southeast Georgia in June after he completed basic training. He credits the Army with restoring his pride after a troubled adolescence but said that doesn’t justify his recruiters’ actions.
”There was harm and foul play on their part,” the Ogden teen said. ”It was very deceiving what they did.”
After he called the Army, recruiters visited Price last winter at a juvenile prison in Ogden, where he was serving a one-year sentence for stealing a gun from his father.
Officials at the Mill Creek Youth Center allowed recruiters to take Price from the prison in January for a physical examination, written test and, finally, to be sworn into service after the recruiters showed a parental-consent form.
The form, dated Jan. 10, had signatures in the names of Price’s divorced parents, Dean Price and Lisa Jensen, as well as that of a witnessing recruiter, Sgt. 1st Class Jason Stape.
The parents, who live 89 miles apart, have denied signing the form.
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