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This statement is untrue:

The city of Berkeley used that as another reason to get the office removed. The city of Berkeley's stance has always remained consistant. They are in opposition to the war and the system, not the soldiers or anyone in the military fighting for our country...the blog that VnutZ posted before was misleading because he mis-read the article and the city of Berkeley's stance on the military. Everyone keeps saying the "The City of Berkeley is back-peddling when in fact that really are not. They are just making their stance (which was clear to everyone within the city of Berkeley) clear to everyone else that has gotten involved...the city of Berkeley has never said anything against the individual soldiers and men and women who sacrifice their lives in service of this country.

Here is Vznut's statement in the other blog:

he then linked an article that says the following:

First sentence:

• The City Council voted 8-1 Tuesday to tell the Marines their downtown recruiting station is not welcome and "if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome guests."*

Second sentence:

• The council also voted to explore enforcing a city anti-discrimination law, focusing on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.*

As you can see the city of Berkeley was smart enough to know how to use a policy of "anti-discrimination" to fulfill a different purpose (removing the Marine office from the city of Berkeley on the grounds that we don't have a moral foreign policy and should change before recruiting more officers)

If you chose to become inflamed about the city of Berkeley, be clear on what you are getting inflamed about. The protests in Berkeley including those of Code Pink (which is a separate entity from the city of Berkeley, although they have strong ties) had nothing directly to do with "don't ask don't tell" or homosexuality in the military.

This is a great example of how media can be misleading and thereby add intensity to a situation that really need not be there. Everyone has complained about how the city of Berkeley has no business participating in Federal Affairs, but Berkeley has done EXACTLY what it planned to do and thats bring light to the severity of the issues with our foreign policies...in the end Berkeley continues to be the city it's always been, and people are talking more about the important issues like the fact that hundreds of people a month are dying on both sides of a war...your advocacy or opposition of the war is really of no consequence, its not the point, the point is that real people are dying, everyday...and the people within the city of Berkeley care...don't try to make it more then that, stop trying to make it that the people of Berkeley are un-American, or impractical, or arrogant...it has nothing to do with that.

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