So Much for a Volunteer Army

[Y_lifter]

Spending $250 Billion on educating Children that have been blown up
on a bus, is wasted money IMO..

 

[bluepeter]

Your ignorance, haste to criticize Bush and wish for bad news are all evident here. IRR recall is common in wartime, most recently done during the first Gulf war, which only lasted less than a year. This one has been going on for over two years.

Stop loss is nothing new either. All soldiers who volunteer are well-aware of these two policies and that war means likely implementation of both.

But your buddy dubya declared an end to the conflict from his personal air craft carrier a year and a half ago. How is it you invoke this when there is no declaration of war?

 

[Longhorn85]

But your buddy dubya declared an end to the conflict from his personal air craft carrier a year and a half ago. How is it you invoke this when there is no declaration of war?

The mission accomplished sign was for that particular unit who had just returned, as you no doubt well know.

No war was declared in Korea, Vietnam, Just Cause or Desert Storm either. Presidents invoke the war powers act and get approval from congress. That is the precedent.

Next.

 

[bluepeter]

The mission accomplished sign was for that particular unit who had just returned, as you no doubt well know.

No war was declared in Korea, Vietnam, Just Cause or Desert Storm either. Presidents invoke the war powers act and get approval from congress. That is the precedent.

Next.

In other words, make it up as you go along and make sure you have the votes in Congress to ram through whatever you want..........

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Are you saying that the $250 billion or whatever this fiasco has cost wouldn't be better spent educating children?

Only acceptable use of this money in my eyes is immediate return to the taxpayers.

Tax-funded education = a disgusting boondoggle that produces lackluster results year after year.

 

[Longhorn85]

In other words, make it up as you go along and make sure you have the votes in Congress to ram through whatever you want..........

Well that is a good check and balance, I think. Plus congress has to approve funding. What sucks is when you get Senators like Kerry who approve the war but then try to deny the funding. This is like pulling the rug out from under our volunteer military.

Fortunately he was out voted. In November he will be outvoted again.

 

[WODIN]

The mission accomplished sign was for that particular unit who had just returned, as you no doubt well know.

No war was declared in Korea, Vietnam, Just Cause or Desert Storm either. Presidents invoke the war powers act and get approval from congress. That is the precedent.

Next.

No Karl Rove fucked up and had it hung up with the grand notion of saying we won the war and fucked up and then lied about it and said the troops had hung it up when in fact the bush advance team had hung up the banner.

That's just a small lie compared to WMD, and nukes falling on American cities.

 

[Razorguns]

They signed up for the army.

Now they're being called on it.

What part of this is controversial???

 

[Nubly]

Are you saying that the $250 billion or whatever this fiasco has cost wouldn't be better spent educating children?

to have another generation with your education level? tell me how that is not money wasted

 

[Longhorn85]

No Karl Rove fucked up and had it hung up with the grand notion of saying we won the war and fucked up and then lied about it and said the troops had hung it up when in fact the bush advance team had hung up the banner.

I don't care who hung the sign. It was for the ship and it's crew. If you listened to Bush's speech instead of just focusing on his harnessed crotch you would have heard him say the hardest days of the war were yet to come.