What if 'SNL' mocked Michelle Obama?:
"This is an astonishing statement from a chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee who has access to the same intelligence as George Bush. Joe was warning of a crisis like the Berlin Wall of July 1961, where JFK called for a tripling of the draft and ordered a call-up of reserves, or the missile crisis where U.S. pilots like John McCain were minutes away from bombing nuclear missile sites in Cuba and killing the Russians manning them."Yeah. That ought to make everyone prick their ears. And for two different reasons....
1)Biden has access to all the intelligence that goes across the Presidents desk -- he knows things that most of us don't, he see things that go cross-departmental so that if they don't link it together he might.
2)He invoked JFK and compared the crisis to the one he faced. Maybe this is why Obama has said that he would make women sign up for selective service too. There are little bits of info that if you listen to it one would get the feeling that the Democrats are going to reinstate the draft.
Yes I said it. DRAFT. INDUCTION. We are talking about people being FORCED to serve in the armed forces ... not just Community Service the way the Clinton's wanted us to do, not like Bush urged people to do after 9/11 instead of running out and joining the service on a whim ...
Don't be surprised if that extended education doesn't come with some khaki colored strings attached to it ... actually it will probably be more like Cuba where they are khaki colored chains.
Don't be surprised if suddenly our sons & daughters will have to serve in the armed forces as part of their citizenship.
Don't get me wrong -- I love the Armed Forces .... I support them fully ... and if it came time for a draft I would probably support that too (there are times where I feel the nation has the right to impose upon its citizens to stand up) ... BUT I also believe in a VOLUNTEER force.
I mean a full volunteer force not like these ones who join the Reserves to get the education benefits and then bitch-n-moan when its time to actually go into service because it wasn't what they signed up for .... YES IT IS - it is not the countries fault that you didn't pay attention to what was being said.
oh wait - that's the same thing I said about the loan crisis ... hmmm, maybe its just the whole accountability thing that gets me. Its like signing up for a credit card w/o reading the fine print and then getting pissed when you find there's a yearly fee ... or buying bonds and then finding there's a penalty if you cash them in early and getting mad about it ... you have to learn to ask questions. This is not like getting your car towed and then finding there are all these fees that don't seem to have anything to do with the actual towing.
ooops -- vered off didn't I?? Biden.
So hug your kids today ... for tomorrow, well after November, they may be going off to war. Expect it -- prepare for it -- because its coming ... remember it was a war that got us out of the Great Depression and the Democrats love to compare the current economic situation to the Great Depression!!
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