After you Al Zwahiri. What are you waiting for?

Suck-up and F– up together licking each others milk.

Lucky for me I only heard the last short minute of it.

I’ll take ‘em.

Jackass.

MSNBC’s Lawrence, that is. “[L]et’s hear Rangel’s speech about how the burden of war is not fairly shared in this country. Let’s get America thinking about exactly who is being left in the line of fire in the war Americans……

I’ll reserve judgement on the “best ever” accolade until they face an equal enemy.

Hiraghm on November 22, 2006 at 3:07 PM

And where are we going to find them one of those?

“Two-thirds of our recruits are from the top half aptitude (range), whereas an average or equitable share would be only half…”

from link

What a crock of the brown stuff.

shows most recruits come from middle-class families, rather than poorer or wealthier ones. Patterns in recent years reinforce this trend, showing a slight dip in recruits from lower socioeconomic groups and a slight increase from upper-class groups, …..

But it was possible to become a citizen. For instance, a Bill Gates type could buy a citizenship by giving the state so much money that there was a significant enefit that redounded to the entire society. But of course, that would be rare.

Not so. One could not buy citizenship in Starship Troopers; and the MINORITY of citizens were military. The service could be, and usually was, civil service. You could be a postman and get the right to vote.

While I think our military is very good (especially considering the PC shackles placed on them today), I’ll reserve judgement on the “best ever” accolade until they face an equal enemy. We haven’t won a real war since WWII (which is just before we began social experiments in the military…)

I’d like to watch the clip, but all it does is say “Loading…”

Military recruitment is like taxation. The better you make it, the more and better recruits you’ll get. By “better”, I don’t mean “easier”. People who favor the military life do not want things easy. They want to fight. Show potential recruits success, honor and glory, and they’ll line up to get in. No matter how good the military is, nobody will want to join if it’s obvious that the gov’t will not let them win.

When are they gonna let us *fight*?

- Telly Savalis in “The Battle of the Bulge”

Don’t be a chickenhawk. Show your support today. /sarc

Charlie hates all the productive, self-satisfied, moral white people. Larry hates all the squares.

Hatred, undiluted. Call a thing by its name.

Up to age 42? Hell lets just draft everybody 65 and under while we’re at it. What universe is Rangel from? (BTW I turned 42 this year.)

vcferlita on November 22, 2006 at 12:25 PM

Goes back to the draft of 1917 in WWI. Able bodied men from the ages of 18 to 40 (42) were required to register for the draft.

O’Donnell is a useless waste of DNA.

O’Donnell throwing around words like “disgusting”, while standing as a walking/talking model for the word. He’s making a buck being *SO* eaten up with moral indignation…while leading me to question what he actually believes. His tirades are probably profitable — they get him gigs on Scarborough — but what he may or may not believe, aside from believing in his own personal worth to humanity — I can’t fathom.

His tirade here was, to use his word, disgusting.

What does a citizen of the United States need to discuss this or any war in which the nation is engaged? Their citizenship alone.

What does a citizen need to direct the forces of this country in war? A mandate, by election or appointment approved by elected officials, as one would need in setting agricultural, educational, fiscal or diplomatic policy.

This while “chickenhawk” thing is classic Leftist claptrap: they’re totalitarians and try at every turn to silence dissent to their rants. I O’Donnell counts himself among those “too scared to serve”, as he didn’t ever serve, *HE* should shut up.

Ditto.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Charlie Rangel wants to bring back the draft in order to stop the military from ever taking, you know, military action. His dream is to have a military drawn from “all elements of society” (ps, it already does) and then……

To sum up the reason why morons like O’Donnel love to use the word “chickenhawk,” I refer you to the above site.

A. Many liberals, in their diminished mental capacities, like to have a word or phrase to shout over and over in lieu of the mental preparedness needed for an actual debate of issues. Fighting tyranny is a complicated issue, and, rather than admit they’re on the side of tyranny, many liberals will try to avoid debate altogether in any way possible.

Remember, chickenhawks ARE PREDATORS who really do eat chickens for lunch!

And, as we all know, the “Peace” sign *IS* a chicken’s footprint.

Pablo, probably meant to hit the emphasis button, right?

Yup. All I want for Christmas is preview.