Uncle Dubya Wants You...

...to get your ass blown off in Iraq. And he's going to scour the country to find that ass.

After issuing stop-loss orders to prevent enlistees from retiring, extending tours of duty time and time again, increasing the frequency of those tours, and borrowing from the Korean garrison, the Bush Administration still doesn't have enough cannon fodder for its Iraq meat-grinding operations.

Now, the Bush Administration is proposing to call upon the IRS to help it "locate out-of-touch reservists":

Those in the Individual Ready Reserve are people who have completed their active-duty tours but are subject to involuntary recall for a certain number of years. For example, a soldier who serves four years on active duty remains in the IRR for another four years. The whereabouts of about 50,000 such veterans are unknown.

And the IRS, under the Pentagon's plan, would hand over their current addresses. Another triumph of small government!

What's truly amazing, though, is the incongruity with the Bush Administration's righteous rhetoric. If the Administration's "War on Terror" (of which, Iraq "was" just "one battle") were as crucially important and momentous as the Administration wants us to believe -- the very existence of Western "civilisation" at stake, yes yes -- you'd think that people would be lining up around the block to take part, right?

That we'd be a nation of Pat Tillmans, the new World War II generation. Instead, we're a nation of fucking chicken-hawks: "Track down and then send the 20-year-old wetbacks, niggers, and hillbillies [who only joined up Uncle Sam in the first place in order to pay for college -- "No Child Left Behind", indeed] to kill and be killed, to torture and be tortured; so long as you don't interrupt my fat-assed lifestyle. God Bless America!, and wake me when it's over."

Posted by Eddie Tews at May 19, 2004 12:03 PM