tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897529.post4686014522336938934..comments2024-03-29T03:30:42.787-04:00Comments on A Dark Planet: Bill Kristol, irony-free since 1984.David Terrenoirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482864941636273068noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897529.post-8233572175248922972008-07-03T10:36:00.000-04:002008-07-03T10:36:00.000-04:00Surely it’s relevant to point out that pointing ou...Surely it’s relevant to point out that pointing out we have a volunteer army has nothing to do with it. <BR/>The military doesn’t go out to the street corner and proclaim: “We are going to have a war in Iraq. If anyone would like to sign up for the military and go fight, please volunteer”. <BR/>There have been wars were people signed up after the war has started. But that is not the case today. For the most part people volunteered to “serve” in the military and give up their right to dissent later in doing so. <BR/>It is certainly the prerogative of America mothers and fathers to voice their objections to a war buy saying “not with my child”, especially since it is not only their sons and daughters being sent overseas but their money. <BR/>Super Chicken told Fred: “You knew the job was dangerous when you took it”.<BR/>But that doesn’t work here; it only begs the issue of whether our resources should be sent to Iraq the first place.<BR/>Missing the point is pretty much par for the course in political editorials.<BR/>And here is the rest of “the point”.<BR/> It’s my point anyway.<BR/> I’ve seen it and you have too. <BR/>Mohammed is driving around with his kids in the car going along with is life in Iraq. <BR/>But who is manning the streets? <BR/>It’s some American mother’s son. <BR/>(Maybe some of those “hard working” Mexican illegal invaders that McCain wants to give amnesty to could be conscripted for military jobs that Americans “don’t want”. There’s an idea. See if they like getting shot at for someone else.)<BR/>Freedom and democracy is great if you can get someone else to die for it. <BR/>And besides if the Iraqi had to fight for himself, might have to kill a fellow Muuuuuuslim. <BR/>If that kind of “Muqtada al-Sadr crap” were going on in America, I’d be down town with my Mini-14 asking where to sign up for the “coalition militia”. <BR/>(THANK YOU SUPREME COURT FOR RULING ON THE 2ND AMENDMENT)<BR/>And what about the Iraqis coughing up some of that Iraqi oil to help pay for it all?<BR/><BR/>The bottom line is these people don’t want or deserve to have our military there.<BR/>Kill those that get in the way and take the oil. That’s what we are there for (now) anyway <BR/>Take the responsibility for that.<BR/>Sadam is gone and we have succeeded in destabilizing the country. <BR/>And take the responsibility for that tooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897529.post-37075635118019002162008-06-24T21:35:00.000-04:002008-06-24T21:35:00.000-04:00One foot burning; one foot freezing...on "average"...One foot burning; one foot freezing...on "average" this country is doing great! I'm still facinated with last Thursday's Modigliani.<BR/><BR/>Rhodes is right. Good line. You could write comedy if you weren't so dark. But then there's dark comedy.Beneath the Carolina Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11378676354922370500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897529.post-17826104458092393682008-06-24T14:36:00.000-04:002008-06-24T14:36:00.000-04:00a man whose closest brush with uniformed service c...<I>a man whose closest brush with uniformed service comes when he orders a Big Mac from the back of his limousine, </I><BR/><BR/>I LOVE this quote.JD Rhoadeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07123361739160525998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19897529.post-14544870767655595842008-06-24T14:33:00.000-04:002008-06-24T14:33:00.000-04:00That ad makes me cry and that's what scares them. ...That ad makes me cry and that's what scares them. Ten million crying mothers. (And dads)pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com