Friday, February 25, 2005

Drafts, Dogs Eat Dead Bodies, Double Dealing & Our Despot Denies Reality

From the Delaware News Journal, more indications that a military draft is imminent. Well, I just don't know why that would be...oh yeah..maybe the fact that more and more of our military members are REFUSING to go to Iraq may be part of the reason. And that nasty little problem of incredibly low recruitment numbers may be a big contributing factor, too. And maybe the horrors of fighting this sort of warfare that forces a soldier to fight civilians (and a whole bunch of innocent women, children and old people) rather than other soldiers may be some of the reason soldiers feel that this war raises serious moral dilemmas for them...assuming they have already cast aside the issues of no WMDs, no real threat posed by the nation of Iraq, and the war profiteering taking place for a select few American corporations such as Halliburton. Speaking of Haliburton, Newsweek has an interesting perspective on their double dealing in Iran, a nation in which all business deals between us and them is to be illegal, but when has a pesky little issue like LAW ever stopped Dick Cheney's former company? Since we're on the topic of Iran, a former US Marine and Weapons Inspector says that we are planning to launch a war against Iran as early as June 2005, and he says that the elections were cooked in Iraq (gasp! this administration cooking an election...say it ain't so...they've only done it here in 2000 & 2004). And what does our esteemed despot Bush say about a war with Iran: "Ridiculous!"...yeah, yeah, yeah... and the check is in the mail, and I promise officer, I will never ever speed again. Well since the Australian news reports that "Iraq will be another Vietnam", and the US military is slashing military officer training so more soldiers can just be gun toting targets, and retired Col. David Hackworth says that the "Pentagon is lying its way out of an unwinnable war- again" I guess that maybe Bush and Rumsfeld will give a stab at warring with Iran, too, -- I mean how bad can it be for them, huh? Their children won't be fighting in a "priceless war" and neither will they, while the U.K. wonders if the war in Iraq is even legal.
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