Comments on: Military Draft System To Be Tested

Officials Say Selective Service Apparatus Is Being Checked, Not Implemented

[randalds]

The more Bush pushes, the more dangerous the situation becomes.

[randalds]

If Bush launches a nuclear attack against Iran, or any other country in the region for that matter, Americans will riot in the streets. He and his administration will be removed from power forcibly by the people and I doubt anyone would be crazy enough to try to stop them. 80% of the American population opposes his out of control warmongering now and an attack of this type will bring most of the other 20% over to right side. It is possible for a president to defy his own people too much, even to the point of revolution.

[descartes13-2009]

As I said a few days back, Mr. Ritter, a former U.N. weapons inspector who has many contacts in the CIA, the NSA, and the U.S. military has stated that "it's not IF the U.S. will attack Iran, it's WHEN."

And to make matter so much worse, Bush is also strongly considering using nuclear-tipped bunker-busting missiles on Iran.

Imagine how THAT'S going to make us look in the eyes of the world; particulary in the eyes of muslims world-wide : we will have attacked 3 different muslim countries, and we will be the only country to have ever have used nuclear missiles in anger -- not once, but twice!

[randalds]

Oh grow up! Iran has no intention of ever launching a nuclear attack on Israel and never has had. The whole idea is ridiculous and a bunch of cr*ap put out by the Bush people to try to whip up enthusiasm for attacking Iran. Since anyone with any common sense knows it's garbage from the White House they have decided to send another aircraft carrier group to the gulf on one mission, to provoke an attack from Iran to give the warmongering as*shole in the Oval office the excuse he's looking for to go to war with them. Bush has drank the kool-aid of neoconservatism and it's goal is a region-wide war because they believe it'll end with the US in control of the region, no matter how many people end up slaughtered for it. They need to start that war soon as Bush's power is shrinking and they're getting desperate. Once it's started, they don't think anyone here will be able to stop it. They are sick people.

[jdweymouth]

Also, there's a real easy way to deal with the bomb-seeking Iranian government.
The Prez simply tells them, "If you want to get the BOMB, fine. We won't stand in your way.
However, if a nuclear device is EVER detonated in the USA or Israel, whether it is fired in, or smuggled in then detonated, we won't wait to verify that it was indeed, from your country.
We will instantly retaliate by sending an ICBM to each and every city in Iran with a population of 7500 or more.
In short, if we or Israel ever gets hit, there won't BE an Iran afterwards!"

Posted by Descartes13

I agree 100% with the above section of your comment! Only I was thinking the target city should be Mecca, then Medina. That will certainly make them think

[randalds]

Draft the Bush twins. When one (or both) of them come home in a box then maybe the real cost of this war will finally sink into Bush's thick skull.

[randalds]

darkfyreaol :

I suppose it all boils down to...

Will my constitutional rights be violated?

What constitutional rights ?

Posted by missAmerica4 at 07:09 AM : Dec 23, 2006

They've been disappearing at a steady pace since Bush and the neocons took power. If they are not kicked out they will finish what they have started in destroying our rights and take power permanently.

[bluestardad]

With the Selective Service System exercising its Compulsory National Selection System it is important to notice that almost half of the eligible people in the United States are not required to register for compulsory National Service because of an Unconstitutional Gender preference. This inequity is in direct contravention to the strides toward total gender equality within the Nations Education System with such programs as Title 9 that guarantees equity between genders in sports, and the reduction of programs of gender discrimination within the work force. All Americans must share equality the Responsibility of National Service. To ensure that all Americans earn their place within society there should be no preference or exclusion deferments from National Service Registration or Compulsory Service based on Race, Religion, Gender, Education, or Financial Status. Discrimination in the United States of America stands against the very foundation of the Constitution of this great nation. It is very important that All Americans share in the privilege and responsibility of registering for and serving our Nation by Compulsory National Service. It is our Responsibilities as American Citizens to contact our Elected Officials and Require them to guarantee All Americans and those who wish to be Americans this opportunity.

[cosmicd1]

YES - YES, finally someone has come up with the absolute answer to ending this insane and idiotic war mongering.

Have the US Selective Service System send every daft age person in the USA an official letter stating that it is their time to be eligible to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I guarantee that the citizens of the USA will quickly wake up, take to the streets, and everywhere else %u2013 24/7 demanding an immediate end to the current hopeless course.

Obviously, most citizens of the USA will not act in a manner that is consistent with the critical severity of this matter until it is consciously acknowledged, inescapably, to be a personal matter of top priority concern.

Clearly most people are not giving any more than well-meaning to pathetic lip service in discussions, arguments, verbal expressions of disagreement and sadness, or agreement with %u201Cstaying the course%u201D %u2013 as long they are not required to be in the Front Line fighting, and trying to survive.

[descartes13-2009]

I voted democratic this time around, and imagine my shock when Nancy Pelosi made the following 2 statements:

1. Impeachment is "off the table"
2. Cutting off funding for the war is "off the table"

You would think with all these polls out showing how much americans are fed up with this horrible folly of a war, that the democrats would "get it," and get their butts in gear!

What I find especially exasperating is that the democrats are saying that they don't want to cut off funding, because they don't want to make it look like they're not supporting our troops.

Helllllooooo??? That funding is going to Halliburton and all the other war profiteers!

Dennis Kucinich is the only presidential contender (democrat) who seems to actually NOT be hard of hearing; other than that, we americans are just getting ignored, and I'm sooo sick of it!