...John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator, would keep troops in the region to intervene in an Iraqi genocide and be prepared for military action if violence spills into other countries. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York would leave residual forces to fight terrorism and to stabilize the Kurdish region in the north. And Senator Barack Obama of Illinois would leave a military presence of as-yet unspecified size in Iraq to provide security for American personnel, fight terrorism and train Iraqis.
These positions and those of some rivals suggest that the Democratic bumper-sticker message of a quick end to the conflict — however much it appeals to primary voters — oversimplifies the problems likely to be inherited by the next commander in chief. Antiwar advocates have raised little challenge to such positions by Democrats...
That line, of course, being a candidate for Pravda's Big Lie of the Day.
Antiwar groups, and thousands of individuals are continually bombarding Congress and all the major news outlets with the message that we want out, now. However, once again, the serious pundits and Wise Old Men of Washington and the corporate state have decided this isn't a serious position. Now, all that oil wouldn't have anything to do with that, would it?
Speaking of all that oil, apparently Dear Leader's allowing his mouthpieces to float the draft ballon in order to help keep the oil flowing.
Despite all assurances to the contrary, who gets drafted this time around? It won’t be the Young Republicans.
It will be blacks, Mexicans, and poor whites. It will be overtly Democratic or atheist kids naive enough to let it be known. It will be any prisoners younger than 42 and of color. The white fundamentalist supramacists from the trailer parks will be your noncom officers, and the Christian TheoCon fundies your brass.
You get the job of clearing Basra of all opposition. In 120 degree heat. With body armor that doesn’t work. Against insurgents armed with AK-47s made in China, bought by the Pentagon, and issued to Sunnis and Shiites- both sides- the week before in the Pentagon's latest efforts to arm the "civilians" against the "insurgents".
Like that uranium dust you’re breathing?
We are in Iraq, soon to be Iran and Syria too, for the rest of your life, which won’t be long if you let yourself be drafted. There is only a limited amount of oil in the world, Cheneyburton and the Saudis won’t allow alternatives to be developed, and the banker that’s mortgaged your house, car, and soul needs a tank of gas for his Hummer.
There are hundreds of thousands of private contractors associated with this war, and possibly millions of Americans making a lot of money off it. They have tools of a police state nobody except George Orwell and Phillip K. Dick ever dreamed about when I was a teenager fighting against the Viet Nam war.
It will be far worse, far more unjust, and far more unfair than anything we had to deal with.
And you will hear nothing of injustice from the main$tream media. Likely by the time the draft is fully in swing the blogsphere will be totally marginalized due to the corporatization of the internet. Net neutrality means that blacklisted websites take a long time to load- and you get noticed for loading them.
The new draft may target people into their late 30s. The new draft may involve conscription of men and women for “public service”. The new draft will be like nothing you’ve ever seen, because it will be constructed to fight a war for oil for the next 50 years in an increasingly policed state.
Place your trust in your leaders, don’t rock the boat, and watch where it takes you.
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