As for screaming bloody murder for it, I did one better. I found ways to get everything I could through backdoor channels. I was almost a regular fixture at the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office on Ft Carson. My Bn CO nicknamed me “Lt Scrounge” because of how proficient I became at finding “unavailable” supplies. I actually carried an address book with the name and phone number for every Supply and Motor Sergeant in the 4th Infantry Division in my bdu pants’ cargo pocket. There are few things as unnerving as trying to leave a Bn Staff meeting and having the Bn Operations Officer (a Major) grab you by the shoulder and say “Lt, the CO wants to talk to you.” There are few things in life as amusing as seeing a Captain (who outranks you) sheepishly telling you that the Bn Executive Officer ( a Major) sent him down to find you and could you come back to the Bn Motor Office because they need your help. That was terribly funny.

That’s BS. If you were deployed as a combat soldier, you should have had current state-of-the-art gear. If you didn’t, you should have been screaming for it. In major wars, the USA has been able to quickly re-tool our economy to a war footing. With Iraq? Never happened. Bush just told our citizens to STFU and go shopping. Don’t blame Clinton- Bush and Cheney rushed us into a non-essential conflict in Iraq.

What will that attack be? Homicide bombers on city buses nationwide? Dirty bombs set off in cities like San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Washington? Planes shot down from woods and fields behind the runways of major airports? We may have to institute the draft as we will be fighting them in our city streets. Get out of Iraq and bring the battle to our front doors. This is what liberals want and it may well be what they get. I for one have accepted that liberals do not care for our country. They would rather give it away than defend it. It’s a shame but it’s the truth.

FAO…I guess it boils down to are there more of us than them. Liberals don’t care and it’s up to the rest of us to defend all.

Bullshit.

Like the people who sponsor the draft, it is nothing more than a political ploy- a scare tactic engineered to assist in further the fear mongering the Dems are sucessfully pulling off in the media. It is a tactic used to try to manuever the Dems towards a more solid position of power.

Don’t fucking sit there and tell me it’s about “shared-sacrifice” thing.

The draft is NOT about shared sacrifice, and to use it as such shows the stupidity of those advocating it. Fighting a war is no time to be playing stupid social engineering experiments. Drafting people simply puts good people at unnecessary risk.

So utterly hyperbolic that I don’t even think I need to respond to that.

I’m sorry that conservatives fear everything under the sun, be them radical islamics, blacks, liberals, gays, feminists, latinos, etc, but you all do need to get a grip. Really!

As for the draft, it’s a shared-sacrific thing. If the country wants to go to war, then EVERYONE, must have chips in the game. And everyone must know what’s going on. Which means, NOT HIDING CASUALITIES of the war and deny the media to honor the return of our fallen soldiers. This administration has played war on the cheap. They sent our Guard soliders with vietnam era equipment and armour. WTF?

Support the troops? Cowshit. They don’t give a fark.

Wow, for a man like GW Bush who skipped out on Vietnam via enlisting in the Guard and for Dick Cheney with 5 questionable deferments on Vietman, one has to ask? WTF are these two pretend cowboys doing sending sending our National Guard into international combat zones without proper equipment as well as extending tours beyond traditional military policy?

We have deserted our friends in one war, and negotiated a truce for another one. The first one lead to the third world seeing us as cowards who run from a fight. You’re probably too young to remember the helicopters flying from the roof of the US Embassy in Saigon. I AM NOT. Millions were slaughtered following that debacle. Almost as many were killed following our abandoning the South Vietnamese and Cambodians as were killed in Rwanda when Bill Clinton refused to do anything. The war we negotiated a TRUCE in is still a hot zone with over a division of US soldiers stationed on a DMZ (that’s DeMilitarized Zone for you history education deficient liberals) 53 YEARS after the truce was signed. As of the 80s there were still shots being fired back and forth across the DMZ.

In all honesty, I would love for there to actually be world peace. Unfortunately, that’s simply not going to happen. The longer it takes for the pacifists and anti war sociopaths to realize that as long as we refused to respond to terror attacks, they simply got more lethal and increased Al Quaeda’s reputation and ability. Once an enemy is strengthened adequately, it becomes much more difficult to destroy him. Had we taken Al Quaeda seriously in the early to mid 90s, we wouldn’t have to deal with them now. The more our misguided politicians continue to provide fodder for the Al Quaeda propaganda machine, they will continue to attack us. There are a few things that need to be done including telling Harry Reid, et al to shut the hell up with the political rhetoric and get back to legislating. The Constitution give Congress the ability to defund the military. It DOES NOT give Congress the ability to act as Commander in Chief. The founding fathers KNEW that you couldn’t run a war by committee. For that matter Thomas Jefferson wrote that the surest way to decimate a secret to people you didn’t want to know it was to reveal it to Congrress. Wars have to be run by decisive men with the ability to make tough decisions quickly and stand by them to see them through. For those who haven’t been in them, military staff meetings seldom consist of the CO asking what everyone thinks and then taking a vote on it. It consists of the CO telling his staff what is going to happen, and telling the staff members what each one is doing.

I also still stand behind my statement that if you want to really see body bags fill up, reenstate the draft. Nothing will send a body count up like putting a bunch of poorly trained, poorly equipped, unmotivated people into a combat zone. BTW unlike you spineless twits, I DID VOLUNTEER to go back onto active duty and serve in Iraq and Afghanistan. I even lost 35 lbs so I could pass the physical. The only reason why I wasn’t allowed to enlist was some disqualifying items in my medical history that I couldn’t get a waiver for. Things I wouldn’t have even had on my history if I had some doctors who were a bit less anxious to prescribe drugs for minor things. Paxil for anxiety over a job change in 2001 and hypertension meds over the stress of loosing my job in 2004 prevented me from returning to service. Both conditions were readily treated with diet and exercise, but because I was prescribed meds years ago, I was precluded from rejoining. So don’t try and lecture me about my children having to serve, I encourage EVERY young person to serve. JFK said “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” That folks is patriotism, not this whining and crying crap from the likes of Reid, Pelosi, et al. Their actions are bordering on UNCONSTITUTIONAL. They even KNOW that their actions are bordering on unconstitutional. Why else would they be putting forth a myriad of pointless non binding resolutions?

Time for a new battle plan…”

100% Correct!!!!