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Stuart G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 12:01 PM Original message |
A Secret that the President told everyone....(not too smart of him.eh?) |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. Sounds like justification for a military DRAFT to me! NT |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
2. If our military is 2,000,000 strong, why do we have "stop loss"? n/t |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 12:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. because that doesn't mean 2 million grunts and ied fodder. |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 02:01 PM Response to Reply #3 |
18. consider how many desk jockeys patrol the Pentagon |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 12:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Because most Sailors aren't going to Iraq (save corpsmen and MAAs) |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 12:16 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. The Army needs clerks to lose paper work and to give the grunt |
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quadriga (306 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 12:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Sounds interesting |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 01:24 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. No idea. I was told that by the guys who went to the quartermaster. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 01:58 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. Rummy wanted to outsource the typists and skivvie stackers, too--if it doesn't put |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 08:30 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. More outsourcing means more post retirement money. |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:21 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. They are royal robbers. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:27 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Thomas Jefferson tried to warn us about the Tradesman. The neo cons |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:19 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. 911 was a cover at the Pentagon to destroy the financial |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 09:26 AM Response to Reply #17 |
30. So cronies could profit and he could steal. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 03:47 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. that's not necessarily true... |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
6. you know, it would be just like Bush to start up a draft a couple of months |
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Stuart G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 12:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I agree with this spiteful, vicisous, view.. |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 12:24 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. How would Bush start up a draft? |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 02:32 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. I don't know - but he still has powerful brethren in the Senate like Boehner |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:24 AM Response to Reply #8 |
26. Bush wants to destroy our military for a world mercinary one |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 12:28 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. They got rid of the governor of California in the same manner- |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 12:31 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. They create the problem and then they give the solution. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 01:25 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Disaster capitalism as Naomi Klein calls it. |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 09:25 AM Response to Reply #14 |
29. Not Capitalism....Monopolistic. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 10:48 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Monopoly is the goal. Capitalism is the obtaining and holding of capital. |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:43 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. And using that capital to form huge monopolies to make |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 01:44 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. The Republicans have done a good job of equating Capitalism |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 01:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Ding! That's them in a nutshell. I wouldn't buy a used toaster from these people. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 02:03 PM Response to Reply #6 |
19. The pipeline takes about six month, from the lottery drawing to the first poor sucker being spit |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
10. Bush doesn't want to win this war. He wants to profit and |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-27-08 01:27 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. To build a free market system democracy has to be destroyed. The |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:16 AM Response to Reply #15 |
23. Sweden did it. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 10:46 AM Response to Reply #23 |
31. The free market as it is promoted through the Chicago school is |
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mac2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:44 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Yes. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-28-08 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
28. Breaking point of the army is a policy discussion for a democracy, not a state secret |
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