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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 12:28 PM
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DoD may have a solution to shortage
Word is that the DoD is looking at the 100,000 service members serving prison sentences for various offences under UCMJ to see who can be rehab'ed to duty to Iraq.
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mhr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 12:32 PM
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1. Criminals Fighting For Criminals - Only In A Bush Administration
Edited on Sun Dec-26-04 12:32 PM by mhr
Wonder what Lyndie's new assignment might be - Knowing Rumsfeld he will probably send her back to Abu Ghraib.
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spotbird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 12:34 PM
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2. Oh my God.
Couldn't they just send all the "three strikes" lifers there also? And what do those guys on death row have to lose? Shoot, there are juvenile halls that haven't been tapped yet either.
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coreystone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 12:46 PM
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3. Link Please! :-)
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 12:47 PM
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4. No Link
Private source
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Turn CO Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 12:50 PM
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5. You know...they haven't tapped the drop-outs from
Edited on Sun Dec-26-04 12:50 PM by Turn CO Blue
highschool either. Wait, what about the school districts that aren't meeting their test scores? There are our potential grunts!

There are lots of techies who are out of work right (what with the outsourcing of jobs to India). Tell Rummy to round them up.

"It's not Fascism when we do it!"


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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 01:47 PM
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6. Hey! I'm an out of work techie.
Leave us alone; we have enough problems already in BushCo's America.

I know you weren't Really Being Serious. :)
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Turn CO Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 02:05 PM
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7. Not serious at all.

I hope that more and more techies are on DU!

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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 02:14 PM
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8. WTF! The Amurikan Foreign Legion!
"Beau Geste-in-case-they-run-out-of-warm-bodies"
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coreystone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 02:23 PM
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9. The First two "warm" bodies would be the twins....then those who ...
voted for Bush beween the ages of 18 and 35!

:-(
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indigobusiness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 03:12 PM
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10. They should make the covicts politicians...
and conscript pro-war politicians and ex-politicians as soldiers.
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Career Prole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 06:29 PM
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11. I'd settle for making quite a few politicians convicts.
Hey, a guy can dream, can't he? :shrug:
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