Comments on: Draft Discussed in Senate

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:54:21 +0000

dermot, they don’t need to drag the nerds out from behind their keyboards, DoD has developed their own games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLLa3GkJcJ0

Thats a long video but well worth watching all the way through.

Couple that info with the anticipated surge in UAV and remote warfare expenditures, and a grim vision of the future starts to reveal itself. An increasingly isolated elite buffered from the public by detached gamers on doritos and coke life support.

By: dermot

dermot — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:13:33 +0000

Part of me would love to see them (try) to reinstate the draft. Imagine dragging all the chickenhawks out from behind their keyboards!

Not to mention that they’d drag in a lot of people who don’t possess “military DNA” (people who would otherwise be harmless), and give them training in guns and ordinance.

Yeah; that won’t have ANY negative repercussions…

By: Eileen

Eileen — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:23:50 +0000

I can’t believe I’m writing this, but I’m all for the Draft. Like the other “bubbles” that have been engineered by the suits; economic, energy wise, etc, the war bubble is one that needs to burst. The U.S. war machine has a stank to it that is worse than a bad septic system smell coming up into your house.
A draft might be the B-12 vitamin injection the U.S. populace needs to get out of their myopic farking barko-lounging tv dwelling gas guzzling universe faster than cutting off a credit card.
But these numbnuts who are balking at the cost of $124 k per soldier are blindly insane. That’s probably a fraction of what it costs for 1, ONE surgery after a soldier’s limbs have been blown to bits. Who is giving Congress the true costs of the war in Iraq?
This is ridiculous.
The Vietnam War would still be a war going on today if it weren’t for the draft.
There’s too much money and profit from war, and when folks finally take up their anti-war staffs and walk, I hope it isn’t because of a dead child in a coffin.

By: smarks

smarks — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:15:43 +0000

Hi: This is regular annual news right? I believe that I have read that this always happens every year, nothing going on here move along.

Once bunker busters are dropping, albeit that will not be on any purported nuke facilities, and then when discussion of a draft happens, I will believe that something material has changed.

Steve,
Staff Reporter
THN (tin foil hat news network)

By: anothernut

anothernut — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:36:21 +0000

“Military being spread too thin” — add it to the list of problems that will be conveniently solved (i.e., with no political backlash for our “leaders”) when 9/11 II occurs.