DesEtoiles
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Sun Nov-21-04 06:36 PM
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If shrub drafts their kids, will they still trust him? |
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Sun Nov-21-04 06:37 PM
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Mon Nov-22-04 10:13 AM
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25. LOL! exactly...like lambs to the slaughter... |
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Sun Nov-21-04 06:39 PM
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2. Yes, by then they will have no choice. |
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Because we will be fighting half the middle east, and our economy will be indistinguishable from Stalin's war communism.
I am now calling that for April 05.
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Sun Nov-21-04 06:39 PM
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3. agreed- he'll orchestrate a terrorist attack first to justify it |
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Sun Nov-21-04 06:41 PM
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they will be proud. i have talked to mothers who believe today that their kids in falluja are serving a righteous cause
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Sun Nov-21-04 06:41 PM
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Jesus would have told him to...
Or maybe Jerry Falwell...or Karl Rove...or Dick Cheney...
Aren't they all pretty much the same to shithead?
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Sun Nov-21-04 06:43 PM
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6. tell the poor fools some twisted lie |
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and they would run off a cliff for gracious leader---no sympathy here
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Sun Nov-21-04 06:43 PM
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7. Look at some of the morons who have already lost kids |
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who seem desperate to find higher meaning in it than having their children slaughtered on the altar of Halliburton greed and an old man's vanity.
Shoot, look at the Vietnam vets who could never come to terms with Kerry telling the truth about that war, who cling to their dreams that it was a glorious and in the name of some higher good and that telling the truth about it was somehow disloyal to all the vets who served there.
It's a mindset, and we're not going to change it. Only tragedy on top of disaster on top of catastrophe will make the cognitive dissonance intense enough for them to start wondering if they'd been lied to. The sacrifice of a child alone won't do it.
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Sun Nov-21-04 06:45 PM
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8. Well, there's this one family........ |
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that was on a special about religion and politics, that would still trust Junior Bush. They don't let the kids see gratuitous violence, but they let them see that S&M movie about the torture of Jesus. The daughter "accepted Jesus" at 3yo because she knew she was a sinner, and that she would go to hell if she didn't. The mother said that if the "rapture" came at that moment it wouldn't be soon enough for her.:crazy:
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Mon Nov-22-04 09:10 AM
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That redheaded little robot girl was very disturbing. Such a little parrot, poor dear. Wonder how much shrink time she'll need to get her head screwed on straight, assuming she will ever be able to escape once she meets the age of majority.
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Sun Nov-21-04 06:51 PM
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Too many times during the campaign I'd ask couples supporting Bush if they'd sacrifice their child for Bush's war and not only did I get a "Yes" but a STRONG YES.
I think they were all lying sacks of shit wanting to talk big but of course never back it up (it's alot like those college students who swear they are gonna enlist cause they support Bush and his war) but sadly I think many would sacrifice their kids for the idiot boy, and then would rejoice in knowing their kid is in heaven having died for a Godly cause.
Praise Jay-sus!!
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James T. Kirk
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Sun Nov-21-04 07:19 PM
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10. There will not be a draft by the end Bush's second term. |
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It's just not gonna happen.
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Sun Nov-21-04 07:40 PM
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11. Bingo. We have a winner. |
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The draft issue was smart politics to try and scare people, but it will never happen.
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Sun Nov-21-04 10:11 PM
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Scaring people may be "smart politics", but the politics of fear are not good.
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Sun Nov-21-04 10:26 PM
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Right now I am watching John McCain on Meet the Press as he says we have a few months (not years -- his words) to decide what to do about Iran. (not Iraq, IRAN) He also mentioned 80,000 marines and 20,000 army troops (someone help me out if you saw it, I think he was saying MORE troops). He also said he doesn't think Israel should take Iran on pre-emptively and that well if it comes down the U.S., oh well, it just may be up to us. (slightly paraphrasing, but that's the gist).
WHERE, are all these troops going to come from? Earlier in the day he said they need an additional 50K troops, and that resources are very strained.
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Mon Nov-22-04 07:34 AM
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18. U.S. troops could me moved ourt of the following places without a draft: |
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1. Kuwait - Iraq is no longer a major threat ot Kuwait.
2. Saudi Arabia - Iraq is no longer a major threat to Saudi Arabia.
3. Germany - The Soviet threat has remarkably diminished.
4. Increased volunteer recruiting - The current state of military recruiting is very low. If there was an increase in recruiting resources and a recruitment poster on every street and an ad on every website, that would be more effective.
Also, you assume that an invasion of Iran is a foregone conclusion from something you say once, fleetingly, in a discussion of hypothetical situations.
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Mon Nov-22-04 09:08 AM
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22. The troops are already out of SA and many of Germany's troops have |
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already moved. The ONLY way they can avoid the draft is to throw enough people out of work here, which they are doing well with, and the cancelling of the Pell grants will garnish quite a few.
They have no troops to spare.
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Sun Nov-21-04 07:45 PM
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People's politics largely remain the same in spite of great tragedy. Usually, it reinforces their preconceived views. That's just the way it is.
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Sun Nov-21-04 10:18 PM
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16. Exactly, that's why I firmly believe there will be another attack |
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of convenience for moron. Then he and the *bots will have carte blanche to do what they want.
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Sun Nov-21-04 10:12 PM
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14. has any president that used that draft been distrusted? FDR? Truman? etc? |
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Mon Nov-22-04 09:15 AM
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24. Johnson and Nixon, for starters |
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I believe a targeted draft is in the future. Medical personnel, mortuary personnel, police, fire, civil engineers, civil affairs...that's just for starters. Then, they'll run around to all of the gun clubs, hunting clubs, and scrub the NRA memberships for anyone handy with a weapon. We need cannon fodder, y'all....
If we go into Iran, China will have something to say, and I doubt it will be "Howdy, Partners!." They get most of their oil from those guys. WW3???? It COULD happen...
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Sun Nov-21-04 10:16 PM
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15. The will willfully goose-step into the meat grinder. |
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Let them take the *bots first. It will only piss off the repuke parents first when their kids die, thus making them instant democrats. That's how it usually works. It's come to this. We humans are wretched creatures.
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Mon Nov-22-04 08:41 AM
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19. if bush* wanted to have one of their minor daughters for marriage they |
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would feel honored...can we say david karesh?
IMHO
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Mon Nov-22-04 08:50 AM
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20. RW newspaper in my town (Richmond Times Dispatch) |
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had an editorial yesterday calling for mandatory 1 year service for all persons (men and women) between 18 and 23. No big surprise that they would come out with this after the election.
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Mon Nov-22-04 09:03 AM
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21. Yes. Their teevees will tell them he's Jesus' messanger and they will |
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send their kids to die for his crusade. We must get some control of the media.
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