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Return of the Draft....

....yes folks there is more serious consideration for beginning the draft again.... You can read about it here.... I suggest you prepare all the young people.

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Anonymous said…
Who is this fascist clown?

In the first 15 seconds, he calls me a "maggot" and declares that this is "his" United States of America.

Um, excuse me?

Did your mother not teach you any manners? If you call me "maggot," nothing you say afterward will be taken seriously.

And, as I was born in New Jersey, I am an American. As a citizen, this country is as much mine as it is yours.

I will not be threatened, conscripted, and forced into military service. I am a free human being. And I'm not going to be sent overseas to kill other human beings. I have no beef with them.

You, on the other hand, you vile tyrant, you on the other hand are starting to seem like a tyrant. Tyrants are dangerous. Sic Semper Tyrannis and all that.

We can't have a slave army. This isn't Sparta. I'm not a helot. This is the fucking United State of America, a free country. The barking loon in the video can go fuck himself. I'll have nothing to do with him.

This guy should watch his mouth. This guy should watch his back.
Hube said…
LOL! Relax, anon -- the dude is an ACTOR, made most famous by his role in "Full Metal Jacket" from 1987. Sheesh.

Brian: A good bit of scaremongering. A reinstatement of the draft will NOT -- repeat -- NOT happen in my or your lifetime.

This marks the first time a senior member of Congress has seriously discussed reinstituting the draft in almost two years. Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, called for reinstituting the draft in November 2006.

Get real! Rangel's calls were hardly "serious." He was just trying to score cheap political points. There was nothing serious about it.
Anonymous said…
I had a bit of a suspicion the guy was an actor--too over-the-top to be real. Still, I'm embarrassed that I didn't get the reference. And I'm 28! What about all the children who are actually draft age? How are they going to understand the reference?

Nevertheless, the underlying message is still just as disgusting as I said.

The old message was, "We're the government and we own you."

The new message is "We're the government. We know longer own you but we have an option to lease."

Fuck. Them. Damn near every single soldier who perished in Iraq is worth more than George W. Bush. Who in the hell is he to send them to their death?

I'd trade GWB to get back Pat Tillman in a millisecond.

Our heroic young men are being sent to die for nothing. If there were a hell, Dick "I had other priorities" Cheney and George W. "Texas Air National Guard, not Vietnam" Bush would rot for eternity. Right next to Bin Laden.
Anonymous said…
Hube,

The point is that the possiblity of a darft may not be as far off as you seem to think it is. There is serious discussion going on now between Petreaus and other high ups on re-instating the draft and they are soliciting support from both sides of the aisle...so you draw your own conclusions, but I am relatively confident that there WILL be a draft in our lifetime.
Hube said…
Brian. I'll take that bet. It's suicide for the political party that attempts to reinstate it. That's why it'll never happen. Period.

The ONLY way it'd happen is if we're attacked in a big way. Which, again, isn't very likely.

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