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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-10-05 07:25 AM
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Single Mother off to Iraq: (This parent is needed at home!!)--how insane
are getting to be?


http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_12_04_atrios_archive.html#113416448493762008
Doing her Duty

Single Mother off to Iraq:


While most of her friends and neighbors are amusing themselves with Christmas decorations and holiday gifts, Patricia Arndt is fretting over far more serious matters.

The single mother from Medford has been unexpectedly pulled from the inactive Army reserve and ordered to report for active duty by Feb. 5.

As Christmas nears, Arndt, 43, is trying to sell the Medford home she says she will not be able to keep on an Army salary of approximately $60,000 a year, and is searching for someone to care for her 13-year-old son, Shane.....

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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-10-05 07:33 AM
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1. "pulled from the inactive Army reserve" AKA backdoor draft
And you know what a backdoor draft is?

A draft.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-10-05 09:22 AM
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2. but it means that
there isn't a general draft, so the freeper rich kids don't have to worry, and the sheeple can continue to sleep and ignore the injustice of this war.
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