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I happened upon an article today called "2 Fort Carson soldiers killed in traffic accident" and this is important because the soldier who crashed appeared to be drinking before he began driving. Drinking and driving is a serious issue in America and it must be stopped before it gets worse. Drinking and driving is one of the top killers of American lives. If drinking and driving could be fixed, it would be fixed as soon as possible. It must be stopped.

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I viewed a video today called "Students Helping Students" and this movie was showing students all pitching in money to help pay for college when they arrived there to buy text books and food and the necessities of a college student. This is showing how every student should be. This shows that there are people out there still who are willing to help others as they have their struggles too. This shows that others will help students with everyday problems or education no matter the circumstances.

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I happened upon an article today called Denver man faces 100 criminal sex counts, many involving kids which was stating a man who was caught with 100 sexual assaults. This is a horrible idea because our police should have found this man before he got that far. If the police force was more on top of this issue they would maybe have gotten to him earlier. This man is getting just what he deserves.

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I read an article today called "Obama: U.S. to withdraw most Iraq troops by August 2010" which is basing the fact that president Obama wants to withdraw the troops out of Iraq. Many believe this is a horrible idea because this will just upset Iraq more than they already are. Basically, the plan is. all the way from the start of the war, we invade Iraq, destroy the entire country and leave them with almost nothing, then, in 2011, we just up and leave. Let me tell you something. The USA isn't exactly looked at as the nicest country. We have a reputation for being not the best. And if we are going to destroy a country and leave them with nothing and just leave, that will not please Iraq at all. We are basically saying "We came in to destroy your country and kill thousands, you clean it up." We aren't even going to help by lending money or any other help we can do. I think Mr. President has some thinking to do...

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I have recently read an article called Obama: Yup, We're at War in Pakistan which was stating that our country was soon to rage war with Pakistan. This is said to be a terrible idea by many people considering the fact that the reason to go there is not as valid as they wish. Obama wants to invade Pakistan because he believes that we need to eliminate the terrorist group, Al Qaeda. The group is happening to be in Pakistan right now but they have made it very known to us that they have nucular weapons and they will not hesitate to use them. If we invade that may be just the thing to set off the terrorist group. They may have caused 9/11 but we have been in Iraq and Afgahnistan for about 9 years and already eliminated a large precent of the group. They aren't bothering us anymore in Pakistan. Don't you think that destroying 2 countries is enough? The president of the United States doesn't.

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The men and women in uniform have been denied insurance; this means that the people who are protecting our country are not getting the respect they deserve. The problem is that some Veterans are making enough money to not qualify for VHA (Veterans Health Administration) but are also not making quite enough for insurance. The men and women who protect our country have no insurance which they deserve to have for free some say. If they put their life in danger just to protect our country they deserve free health care many say. However, there are those that do have free VHA but there is still a major problem. This problem is that the VHA has a lot of members, (almost all of the military) and no matter the condition; one will probably be put on a waiting list to get treatment for the issue. Someone could have a chronic condition but they may have to wait for a very long time. But, it gets worse. Upon disease, or acceptance, this person will receive inadequate care from an understaffed facility.

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Dr. Warschuaer thinks that we do not need computers in schools. I think that computers are a great tool for us students. They have helped us all as for some of us have poor handwriting and if we can type up our work, that eliminates the whole issue of poor handwriting. Saving work, we can save work and if we misplace or lose that work, we can easily pull it right back up and reprint it! Many say laptops are not needed in school but I think they must be used to help us with our learning.