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Dec 23 17:32 UTC 2003

We wonder whether the soldiers' moral objections are their true 
reasons - or if they are the way they rationalize their psychological 
reactions to their long years of high stress duties.  Subconsciously, 
the mental toll to which they have been subjected may be leading them 
to act for individual self-preservation - in spite of the logic that 
would seek to preserve the nation at the expense of some individuals.