The problem with this is have you ever tried to prove a point by threatening to do something you did not want to do, thinking the other guy would back down, only to be taken up on the offer?
And when I think of how often Democrats get what they don't want.... DON'T DO IT!!!
"To end war, bring back the draft" by Jeff Danziger | December 10, 2009
Sounds GREAT, right? Nice and EASY!
Of course, we thought we elected a president who was going to end the wars and he is expanding them, but....
It's possible.... that the men and women called by their nation to the patriotic sacrifice of their time and blood might willingly agree that the nation’s needs come before their own.
They may happily open their draft notices, say a prayer, and go once more into the breach. They might be happy to leave their lives of home cooking, easy living, and cable television to go on 10-mile marches and get screamed at by drill sergeants. After all, the country’s very existence is at stake.
Hey, it WORKED ONCE BEFORE!
Going to have to outdo themselves this time.
You ready to SERVE!!!!!?
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On the other hand, a draft would probably cause the war to come to a screeching halt.
Well, not when the sober, somber, stone-faced president issues the call after the false flag.
Even so, you WANT TO CHANCE your KID'S LIFE on a "probably?"
It was the draft that essentially ended the Vietnam War.
I've been told this isn't Vietnam.
In the second half of the war, the troops were conscripts who were, as a fellow conscriptee told me, too stupid to get out of the draft.
So WHAT makes you think things would BE BETTER NOW when the KIDS are EVEN DUMBER?!!!
On the home front, college students rioted, university presidents were pelted, the generations were split, and the country was driven mad by the protest and dissension over the conflict.
Now you are called a traitor still, even after all the lies have been exposed.
Few understood what the war was about, and it seemed like an endless and bottomless morass, bloody and unfair.
That is why WE DON'T WANT IT!
Didn't want it then, and WANT IT TO END NOW!!!
But it was the draft that was unfair. Young men with medical problems were exempt from the draft. So were men in college as well as those who were married with children. Teachers, farmers, and National Guardsmen were exempted.
Dick Cheney got five deferrals because he had "had other priorities" -- and look at his greatest life's work!!
Who was left? Essentially, the people nobody really cared about. Inner-city black youths were called up. Poor rural kids and high school dropouts were called up.
Oh, like the "volunteer" force we have now?
The Pentagon didn’t like the draft, and still doesn’t. Draftees are not happy being drafted....
BUT, if they NEED the MANPOWER.....
College students who resisted the war were actually not against war. They were against themselves being called to fight it.
Yeah, that's right.
In the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the draft was replaced by the use of reservists and the National Guard.
Watch a thoroughly frightening video.
It is essentially a back-door draft.
But the ad sure looks buff, huh, kiddos?
Many National Guard troops are resisting deployments.
And THAT is the KEY!! Hard to HAVE a WAR if you have NO TROOPS!!!!
They are generally older and wiser than young draftees.
Related: AmeriKans Answer the Call to Afghanistan
They have more to lose, and less time left to lose it in. They have growing children, and in some cases, grandchildren. And they are wiser about the ways of the US government....
Translation: WE KNOW THEY LIE -- unlike the starry-eyed kid!!!
No end in sight, readers:
FLASHBACK:
"Event to honor 650 troops going overseas
The Massachusetts National Guard is preparing a send-off ceremony for about 650 troops being deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Governor Deval Patrick is scheduled to attend the ceremony this morning at TD Garden. Three military units are being sent for yearlong deployments. Members of the First Battalion, 101st Field Artillery will team with the Regional Corps Assistance Group to support and mentor Afghan police and army personnel. The National Guard’s 164th Transportation Battalion will provide heavy equipment transport services for military operations in Iraq (AP)."
I just hope you make it back whole in body and mind, soldiers!
"Guardsmen honored as new 1-year deployments begin" by Katheleen Conti, Globe Staff | January 4, 2010
This will be 46-year-old National Guard Sergeant First Class Jeffrey Hollett’s third tour of duty in Iraq, postings for which he volunteered....
Hollett will join the 164th Transportation Battalion as part of a mission that involves moving heavy US military equipment to start bringing soldiers home from Iraq. Although Hollett’s sister Jennifer thinks he is “crazy’’ for volunteering to go to Iraq, and his father, Stuart, jokes that he wants to “shoot him,’’ both said they are proud of Hollett....
“.... the Massachusetts National Guard will deploy 3,700 members in support of operations Iraqi [Freedom] and Enduring Freedom,’’ Massachusetts National Guard Major General Joseph C. Carter, the adjutant general, told the crowd. “This dramatic increase symbolizes not only the nature of overseas war operations but also the importance of the National Guard in defending the safety and security of our nation and the world.’’
Is that for what the NATIONAL GUARD was INTENDED?
To OCCUPY NATIONS 8,000 miles away?
Governor Deval Patrick thanked the soldiers for “answering your country’s call.’’
“Today we pause with you and your families at the dawn of a new decade and a new mission to honor your service to our nation and to our Commonwealth,’’ Patrick said. “As you leave Massachusetts, know that there are 6 million people in this Commonwealth who have got your back.’’
Then bring them home, puke! This guy makes me ill.
What a opportunistic grand-stander!
US Senator Paul G. Kirk and US Representative Stephen F. Lynch addressed the crowd of friends, families, and veterans of other wars, and thanked the families, noting that this deployment is a sacrifice for them also. Kirk, a member of the Senate’s Armed Services Committee and Homeland Security Committee, called the soldiers “our true New England patriots.’’
He's right to a certain degree (nothing patriotic about serving empire through mass-murdering occupations); however, what this piece truly makes you realize is there IS NO "antiwar" political party.
Democrats like to claim the mantle, but they have had three long years to cahnge things and pffffft! It's GOTTEN WORSE!
As he rushed through the crowd of soldiers after the ceremony to reach his family behind what usually is the penalty box during Bruins games, Specialist Nick Nickerson of Marshfield had a hard time describing his feelings, other than to say he was just ready. “I’m sick of waiting,’’ said the 21-year-old, who is heading to Iraq.
And when he gets there I bet he can't wait to come home!
For Staff Sergeant Dan Bertrand, 28, of the 101st Field Artillery out of Brockton, this will be his second overseas tour. In 2004, he was deployed to Iraq; now, he said, he will go to Afghanistan.
Oh, RIGHT in the MIDDLE of it, huh?
“I can’t wait to go. It’s a purpose, you know?’’ said Bertrand, of Lynn. “When you go and you do some of the things that we’ve done, in certain situations that we’ve been in, and come back home, you kind of feel that purpose. A lot of the decisions that you make over there are life or death, so you feel like you have a higher purpose.’’
I give up on you kids.
Fine, go, don't expect me to grieve over the boxes anymore (but I will)!
Members of the National Guard’s 164th Transportation Battalion will provide heavy-equipment transport services in Iraq, while the First Battalion, 101st Field Artillery, and the Regional Corps Assistance Group will support, mentor, and advise the Afghan police and army in operations and training....
Oh, at least there won' be any combat, huh?
See: Occupation Iraq: Uptick in Violence
Why Can't AmeriKa Leave Afghans Alone?
Oh.
Keep your head and butt down, soldier!
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And I pray this will not happen to your father:
"Hostage says suspect voiced anger at US" by Associated Press | December 25, 2009
WYTHEVILLE, Va. - A man accused of taking three people hostage in a Virginia post office told them he was angry at the federal government because his son had died in Afghanistan and his beloved truck was about to be repossessed, one of the hostages said yesterday....
You broke his heart with your lies, dammit, and now my eyes are leaking again!!!!!!
Hostage Jimmy Oliver said: “He was really down on the government. About the government taking over the right to bear arms . . . he was angry at the government overtaxing us.’’
Well, HE AIN'T ALONE -- by about 100 MILLION PEOPLE at least!!!
The ONLY ONES I SEE HAPPY with government are corporations, banks, pocket-stuffing politicians, war-profiteers, and Jews.
And they don't add up to a whole lot, although the lifted tax loot does!
