May 19, 2004
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
Comments
You are unpatriotic scum! I've got more balls than you and I'm a girl! The mission in Iraq is about a two pronged assault to ensure the survival of our values in the form of 1. making sure that America continues to have the economic (and hence military) edge over the brutal regime in communist China by continuing a steady flow of oil, 2. by setting long term democratic modernisation in some accessible nations in the middle east going, which starts a slow democratic domino effect by forcing neighbouring trading partner countries to modernise with them so as not to get left behind economically and in terms of image. This is in addition to the fact that statistically the war has actually SAVED 30,000-95,000 lives when comparing the average slaughter rate under the Hussein regime to the slaughter rate today.
Ed. Note: I addressed this last point in the post "Crippled Inside". -- Posted by: Sharon on March 13, 2006 03:39 AM
Ahmen baby you can come to my house anytime and ill show you balls! -- Posted by: James the nigga on March 13, 2006 03:40 AM