UtopianRanger
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Seeing as we have a fully volunteer armed forces at the moment, I am not going to sign up, because of course nobody wants to be away from home and in possible danger, BUT...if called upon I would fight for my country if needed. I take full advantage of the USA, it's the least I could do.
Heh……On the front page of the Oregonian newspaper yesterday, they had a story about the funeral involving a fifty-six year old man that the Army had called back up from inactive reserve. He had been totally out of the Army since 1992. He was unbelievably outa shape, fat, fifty to sixty pounds overweight. They sent him down to a base in Cali for seventeen days worth indoctrination /training, and then sent him directly into the 113 degree heat of the Iraq desert. He perished four months later from a roadside bomb, riding shotgun in humvee, protecting a convoy filled with civilian KBR truck drives making over 100k a year tax free.
In the same paper, same day……another story was printed in the ‘’local section’’ with a picture, talking about how a forty-six year old {totally outa shape} woman-- who had been out of the Army for fifteen years, but still on inactive reserve--- was going to have to close her variety/antique store and leave her husband and teenage daughter because she was being shipped off to Iraq
I’d say the military is hurting awfully bad if it’s activating 46/56 year old men and women who’ve been out of the military for 15-20 years. And it’s my bet the only reason they aren’t trying to implement the draft, is because they know it would bring instant pandemonium to the administration.
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Sorry, all my training has taught me never to run away. But if you wouldn't fight for your country, let's just take away some of those freedoms you are living under.
Perhaps you could explain to me what training you’ve had that says you should give-into impulsiveness and blind decision making and abandon such traits as common sense, critical/analytical thinking, and deep-seeded intuition?
The internet is here my friend….. The idealism of Uncle Sam circa 1944 is long gone. It’s my prediction that internet discussion boards, non-agenda-driven alternative news, and the hard lessons learned from Iraq will force western thinking peoples to intensely question the underlying motives and quackery of future oligarchicical governments that bare the resemblance/make-up of the Bush administration.
In other words brother….Just like they taught us with Abu Ghraib, it’s time to stand up, not be fooled and tell them to fuck off when they ask you to do something you know doesn’t feel or sound right.
- R
< Message edited by UtopianRanger -- 11/1/2006 7:57:15 AM >
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