NP: Military Draft Legislation

[Bekah]

Well, of course we are, Barbara! We defend them (with a bit of extra destruction) and then we sell them all the stuff to rebuild (with a bit of extra profit). Let's actually hire the locals to do the grunt work at .40 an hour.) Who gets the bucks that the tax payers spend?  Where does this government purchase all the material needed to rebuild that poor country that we defended so heartily?  Why ... from 'muricn comp'nies a course!Hal-e-burton and GE and Viacom and Boeing and ...

hmmmmmmmmmm

http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/updates/022404.html

Too bad we can't supply Iraq with tax payer supplied pharmaceuticals. Be a big boon to our hurting drug companies. (All that R&D, you know.)(lol)

Bek


At 11:58 AM -0500 8/2/04, barbara100 at jps.net wrote:
>We're there to defend and rebuild them? How naive...
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>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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>Kinda ironic that Europeans, Middle Easterners, South Americans (where
>military service is required) are flooding into the USA, avoiding
>military service, finding work and prospering, while US men and women
>are shipped to these countries to defend them and rebuild them, yes, and
>even lose limbs and lives for them. Whatever you think drafts and wars,
>it's kinda hard to see young men from Iraq and Iran and Afghanistan,
>sitting at a corner coffee shop in the middle of the afternoon, in their
>God Dam PJs, watching the tube,  while American boyz and girls die over
>there. Don't look like the war mongering Democrats will get us out of
>these wars. So, maybe a year in the Greek army don't look that bad now?