The milatary only wants people who support the war, the only people who support the war are repubs, therefore the milatary only wants repubs.

I don’t think the military cares about what you think on most subjects as long as you do the job.

Woody Allen: All men are mortal. Socrates was a man. All men are Socrates.

I don’t think the military cares about what you think on most subjects as long as you do the job.

BTW, how are the fireworks in Vegas? for some reason I bet they do them well in vegas.

One word, Spectacular!!

I served and was a Democrat when I left the service, after joining as a Republican. The argument over ‘who’ is serving isn’t what I wanted to get at with this, but instead wanted everyone to consider what the people who are already in are being forced to do.

Whether Democrat or Republican, the recruiting numbers aren’t being hit, and the existing units are having to compensate in ways that reduces their strength. The stop-loss policy is wrong, and all of us need to start pointing that fact out to the government. It’s not a ‘volunteer’ force at this point, and if they want to continue fighting this war and subsequent wars with a ‘volunteer’ force, some changes in terms of how they’re going to actually build one will have to take effect.

The $2000 monthly bonus for soldiers retained by a stop-loss policy is the right thing to do to begin with, but the goal has to be not using people who didn’t volunteer – or scraping the idea altogether. We can’t claim to ‘Support the Troops’ and at the same time remain apathetic towards those who are forced to serve against their will. We can’t have it both ways.

The milatary only wants people who support the war, the only people who support the war are repubs, therefore the milatary only wants repubs.

BTW, how are the fireworks in Vegas? for some reason I bet they do them well in vegas.

This is why Kerry trying to pass himsilf off as some sort of war hero is totally a joke. Democrat politicians don’t know anything about defense or the military because they always want someone else to go do the job.

The military is already chock full of republicans, it’s time for the liberals, who supposedly love this country, to either put up or shut up.

“When Operation Yellow Elephant was launched and supported by Markos, atrios and others, I objected to it because, it seemed to me, it called for fellow US citizens to stifle their views unless they served. I disagree with that. The right of American citizens to express their views is not dependent, in my opinion, on their willingness to participate in the policy they support.

But I have changed my mind, not on the ability to express views, but rather on what the makeup of the military serving in Iraq must be — the censoring of the soldier Leonard Clark by the Army because of his opposition to the Iraq Debacle, and the attendant views that soldiers in Iraq MUST support the operation leads to the inescapable conclusion that only the supporters of the Iraq Debacle can serve in the manner the Army deems necessary.”

So campus repubs, how about say goddbye to your manicurist and join up, your country needs you.