Why Was This Soldier Deployed?

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Submitted by William Steimel (United States), Mar 25, 2003 at 16:22

As a Retired US Army Soldier, I would like to know why this Soldier was Deployed in the first place considering his Anti-American Pro-Islam views in a war against a Muslim Country and why he was in the Army to begin with?

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