Rangel Is Right

Every Republican should be behind the draft. We're desperate for men to fight and plan to send 20,000 more men into combat, when we need 200,000.

If the Republicans are serious about winning, let them push and promote a general draft. If they don't want to win, let them show us by refusing to put the troops in Iraq that are needed to fully subjugate and enslave the Iraqi population.

We're currently lowering standards across the board in order to fill quotas. We're allowing gang members to sign up so they can learn military tactics in urban warfare to train kids with when they return to our cities. We're allowing fat middle aged men up to the age of 42 to join. We're dropping requirements for mental fitness.

And we're doing this to fight a war that has no end. The only way our men in the military can be sure they won't be called back to duty, is to get maimed or killed. a bullet to the head or a colostomy bag is the only hope our boys have of getting out of Iraq. A draft would allow us a way to get the boys that have sacrificed so much so far, a way out of the conflict, to come home and to have a hope that they willl live to long enough to meet their grandchildren.

The Republicans want the war to drag out forever. If we never leave, then we never lose. If we never do what it takes to win, then we can keep losing forever and blame everyone but ourselves for the situation. But losing forever, like winning forever, means we never have to admit that we've lost. And if we're winning now, because we haven't left, then clearly Hitler was winning all the way to the point that a bullet entered his head.

Bush declared victory before the fighting really started. He continues to this day to tells us that, just like he did in 2003, we're still winning. If this is victory, then lets change the plan.

Its time for the Republicans to shit, or get off the pot. Either quit the war and write off the loss, or do what it takes to win it. Feeding troops at a slow pace to a neverending war is not the path to victory.

We've had politicians tell us that this war is like WWII and not like Vietnam. Now Bush is saying it is like Vietnam. That trend in rhetoric isn't moving us to victory.

If our politicians want the glory of refighting WWII, then they need a D-Day invasion. And they'll only get that level of carnage and bloodshed if they reinstate the draft.

Since before the war, I've argued against it. I wrote long essays debunking the lies that got us into this war. But now we're there. We need to decide on objectives and create a plan that will decisively determine the outcome of the war. Then get it over with.

The following Beavis and Butthead cartoon illustrates well the way I interpret the Republican view of Iraq.

Stolen from Red State Son


In further news, Iraq is continuing to work to expand diplomatic ties with Iran, and sees an alliance with Iran as a way of getting the violence under control. This means the US will have to leave, and Iran will likely be contracted to pump Iraqi oil.

American military interests since 1991 have revolved around keeping Halliburton in Iraq. Halliburton was charged with managing the oil for food program that was rife with cheating, bribes and theft, and under the program was the only corporation allowed to pump Iraqi oil. In about 2002, Saddam first began discussing Halliburton's role in the future of Iraq, saying that Halliburton would be kicked out on its ass when sanctions were lifted.

The White House Residents can't allow Halliburton to kicked out of Iraq. They must prevent this at all costs.

For the next two years they'll have to stop Iraqi and Iranian relations from moving forward and keep the Iraqi government weak. There are several measures they may implement to do so.

1. Dissolve the democratically elected government of Iraq, by force if necessary.
2. Step up the combat action at the Iraq / Iran border.
3. Start a ground war with Iran with a reinstated military draft.
4. Step up combat action in all of Iraq and completely destabilize the nation.

I don't see a peaceful solution to keeping Halliburton safe in Iraq and enjoying its spoils of graft, corruption and free oil. The administration is going to have to step up the slaughter of Americans, Iraqis and probably Iranians in order to keep Halliburton swimming in luchre.