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11/04/2003 Entry: "Hey, more Vietnam analogies"
Hey, more Vietnam analogies.
The Bush admin is quietly filling up vacant selective service positions in case of a draft. Oh boy. Who feels like dying for oil? I mean the PNAC agenda. I mean a crusade. I mean a war against terror. I mean a war against WMD. I mean a war against dictators. I mean a war to free the Iraqi people. I mean a war against guerillas and foreign insurgents. Aww, screw it. An unjust war based on lies. Phew!
The Bush administration quietly began a public campaign to bring the draft boards back to life."Serve Your Community and the Nation," the announcement urges. "If a military draft becomes necessary, approximately 2,000 Local and Appeal Boards throughout America would decide which young men ... receive deferments, postponements or exemptions from military service."
Local draft board volunteers, meanwhile, report that at training sessions last summer, they were unexpectedly asked to recommend people to fill some of the estimated 16 percent of board seats that are vacant nationwide.
Especially for those who were of age to fight in the Vietnam War, it is an ominous flashback of a message. Divisive military actions are ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. News accounts daily detail how the U.S. is stretched too thin there to be effective. And tensions are high with Syria and Iran and on the Korean Peninsula, with some in or close to the Bush White House suggesting that military action may someday be necessary in those spots, too.
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Damn, that really burns my ass. I'll agree that everyone in a society should "pitch in," but let me choose how and when I'll serve my people. I especially resent that the chosen service just happens to be often deadly. There are plenty who enjoy placing themselves in harms way. Leave the rest of us alone with that please.
Posted by LouReedsSon @ 11/05/2003 01:22 PM CST
