Thursday, June 09, 2005

Support The Troops

If the family is the source of all that is good, how do the right-wing theocrats explain these unhappy statistics? Where is the concern for these families? Probably in the dumpster behind some mega-church, carefully folded in half. I suppose this is Howard Dean's fault.

The trend is severest among officers. Last year, 3,325 Army officers' marriages ended in divorce - up 78% from 2003, the year of the Iraq invasion, and more than 31/2 times the number in 2000, before the Afghan operation, Army figures show. For enlisted personnel, the 7,152 divorces last year were 28% more than in 2003 and up 53% from 2000. During that time, the number of soldiers has changed little.

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