It's All About Me, Man: [CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [Bizarro_UltraZine] "Bring back Military Draft!" says President Bush's new war adviser

Saturday, August 11, 2007

[CanYoAssDigIt] Re: [Bizarro_UltraZine] "Bring back Military Draft!" says President Bush's new war adviser

Yes, if they tried to send people with wealth and privelege, they
would quickly find a lot of law n order rednecks redefining themselves
as anarchist peaceniks!

I'm too damn comfortable on my couch, hell no, I won't go!

And anyway, my solo music career is really taking off. I was real
excited to see on last.fm that somebody tagged my music "abnormal"
What a discerning listener! what insight! and it's a rarely used
tag, shared with only a handful of fellow artists.

Only 3 albums have earned this tag:

Abbey Road by The Beatles (probably a glitch in the program, causing
it to confuse the words "Abbey" and "Abnormal")
Volcanic by KSXi
Dolibasija by Various Artists (actually, the name of the band is "Abnormal"!)

Only 4 artists have earned this tag:

Norah Jones (WTF? Is not Norah Jones the living embodiment of normal music?)
Rammstein
Herbus
Matt Love

And only two songs have earned this tag:

The White Stripes – Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)
Mark Harms – Zigong Blues

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Yeah, I was getting really excited, and then I saw that I was the one
who added that tag to my music page.

Oops. The right hemisphere doesn't know what the left one is doing.

Did you say something about a draft? Should I close the window? Or
maybe the borders, heh heh.

Think of all the great music Jimi Hendrix would have made if he hadn't
died in that foxhole in Viet Nam...

On 8/11/07, kdhaisch@aol.com <kdhaisch@aol.com> wrote:
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> Bush War Czar Says Draft Should be Reinstated
> AP
> Posted: 2007-08-11 05:04:48
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> WASHINGTON (Aug. 11) - Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush's new war adviser said Friday.
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> Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, President Bush's new war adviser, said that repeated deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the nation's all-volunteer force, and that reinstating a military draft "has always been an option."
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> "The president's position in the past was that the all-volunteer military meets the needs of the country and there was no discussion of a draft," General Lute said. "But that situation has changed."
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> He said the repeated deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan affect not only the troops but their families, who can influence whether a service member decides to stay in the military.
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> The military conducted a draft during the Civil War and both world wars and between 1948 and 1973. The Selective Service System, re-established in 1980, still maintains a registry of all men 18 years and older.
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> Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., has called for reinstating the draft as a way to end the Iraq war. He added, "This time, instead of sending 18-year-old men into war, we should consider sending those over 40 into battle. Would the world really miss a Matt Love or a Klaus D. Haisch?"
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