Thursday, April 22, 2004
Chuck Hagel Is an Asshat
Either that or he's brilliant, though I doubt it. He's calling for a reinstatement of the military draft in this country, something that hasn't existed for close to thirty years.
This infuriates me to no end for a lot of reasons. First off, if this administration hadn't bungled Afghanistan and Iraq so badly, there wouldn't be a need to even consider this. As it is, there shouldn't be a need.
Second, Hagel pays lip service to starting up the draft in order to even out the inequity of minorities getting killed overseas, but this is bogus horse-shit, because we all know that the additional draftees would be the children of the unconnected. Or, in other words, lets add poor white trash to the blacks and hispanics that have already died, but leave the rich boys out of it.
But I have a counter proposal for Hagel, and it works like this. If a military draft is reinstated, then every single child between 18 and 26 of a congressman, senator, governor or other elected representative, federally appointed officer or cabinet member, is given 1-A status, and number 1 in the lottery. They all go first. Number 2 in the lottery are the children of any CEO, CFO, Chairman of the Board or other executive officer in any Fortune 500 company. Number 3, the children of any individuals who reported income higher than five million dollars for 2003. Number 4, every child of anyone who works for Halliburton or its affiliates.
There will be no exemptions, no deferments, no excuses. Every one of these children will be in boot camp the morning after the law is passed. And Number 5 will not be drawn until every one of these children is in Iraq and ten percent of them have come back in boxes.
That's how you do an equitable draft. You make the bastards who are making war put their families on the line. You put AK-47s in the hands of Chuck Hagel's children, tell them to kiss daddy good-bye and send them off to die because they don't have proper armor or munitions, because the asshats in this administration launched off into a war that was unnecessary and did so with no exit strategy.
Hell, let's up the stakes. No age limit for the children mentioned above. If they're eighteen or older, they go.
After all, W seems to think god is directing his actions, and didn't god order the death of the firstborn in that fairy-tale upon which they based the movie The Ten Commandments
"If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. -- Rudyard Kipling, Common Form
This infuriates me to no end for a lot of reasons. First off, if this administration hadn't bungled Afghanistan and Iraq so badly, there wouldn't be a need to even consider this. As it is, there shouldn't be a need.
Second, Hagel pays lip service to starting up the draft in order to even out the inequity of minorities getting killed overseas, but this is bogus horse-shit, because we all know that the additional draftees would be the children of the unconnected. Or, in other words, lets add poor white trash to the blacks and hispanics that have already died, but leave the rich boys out of it.
But I have a counter proposal for Hagel, and it works like this. If a military draft is reinstated, then every single child between 18 and 26 of a congressman, senator, governor or other elected representative, federally appointed officer or cabinet member, is given 1-A status, and number 1 in the lottery. They all go first. Number 2 in the lottery are the children of any CEO, CFO, Chairman of the Board or other executive officer in any Fortune 500 company. Number 3, the children of any individuals who reported income higher than five million dollars for 2003. Number 4, every child of anyone who works for Halliburton or its affiliates.
There will be no exemptions, no deferments, no excuses. Every one of these children will be in boot camp the morning after the law is passed. And Number 5 will not be drawn until every one of these children is in Iraq and ten percent of them have come back in boxes.
That's how you do an equitable draft. You make the bastards who are making war put their families on the line. You put AK-47s in the hands of Chuck Hagel's children, tell them to kiss daddy good-bye and send them off to die because they don't have proper armor or munitions, because the asshats in this administration launched off into a war that was unnecessary and did so with no exit strategy.
Hell, let's up the stakes. No age limit for the children mentioned above. If they're eighteen or older, they go.
After all, W seems to think god is directing his actions, and didn't god order the death of the firstborn in that fairy-tale upon which they based the movie The Ten Commandments
"If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. -- Rudyard Kipling, Common Form
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