Everyone Who Still Thinks There Will Be No Draft Raise Your Hand!

[LynnTheDem]

KNTV (NBC's San Francisco Bay Area affiliate) reports that Ted Wallace of Los Gatos just received orders to report for deployment to Iraq.

The 70-year-old Wallace acknowledges that he "probably owes the army two years," but was surprised at being called up many years after he left the military. He checked the documents with his local recruiting office and they told him they were accurate and authentic.

He says he is going to report to duty but hopes they don't put him on the front line. He also hopes that the army will put off his deployment until after his upcoming knee surgery.

He seemed pretty spry, but I can see the bottom of the barrel much more clearly.

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P1377

[Wickerman]

1. Don't see a single hand, do ya?

Nope.

[ogradda]

2. they are idiots

doing something like this 2 weeks before the election. tsk tsk rove is slipping.

[Az_lefty]

3. 70 years old?????

I understand them call back reserve officers who are Doctors, but at age 70? This is just nuts. Doesn't even say if he's in the medical core or not.

[LynnTheDem]

4. 70 years old, yep...US military = DESPERATE

Until AFTER the election. . .

[sonicx]

5. are they allowed to call back anyone?

even if they were, why would bother with people older than about 40?

:shrug:

[durablend]

6. One less dirtbag to leech off Medicare and SS...

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