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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (311515)11/21/2006 1:40:17 PM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) of 1576155
 
JF, what bothers guys like you is that our military is still meeting their recruitment goals, and people from all walks of life are still signing up.

Considerably larger signing bonuses, retention bonuses up to $150K, tax free if done during a deployment, age cut off up to 42 now...you make it sound like enlistment for WW2.

I even had a friend who gave up an Ivy League education to sign up for the military. No, it wasn't poor grades, either.

Which proves what exactly?

That's one major difference between Iraq and Vietnam. The boys who fought and died in Vietnam were mostly drafted. The liberals' finest hour, i.e. the defeat of America. No wonder they want to bring back the draft.

An active deployed force of 500K+ volunteer soldiers...that's a good one. You'd need 5 times that many soldiers to sustain that kind of deployment. We can't even sustain an increase in the deployed force in Iraq, with less than 1/3 the force we had in Vietnam, without triple and quadruple deployments. You probably don't even realize how ignorant and shitty what you said really is.

Hey, would Bush have volunteered for a deploying national guard during the Vietnam war?

Liberal's finest hour...LOL...you are a character.

Al
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