23 March 2011By
Eric Blair
Once again, America has preemptively attacked
a sovereign nation that posed no threat to her without
a declaration of war from the people's
representatives. Apparently the U.S. president now
gets permission from the U.N. to spend U.S. taxpayer
dollars on unprovoked wars and outright murder. Isn't
it still called murder when killing is not done in
self-defense? Okay, just checking to make sure I
haven't lost my mind.
Nobel Peace prince Obama launched his liberation of
the good people of Libya with his own shock-and-awe
bombing campaign appropriately on the eighth
anniversary of Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq. This
tyrannical intervention is so naked, so brazen in its
hubris that whatever shred of goodwill America had
left is completely gone. America is officially the
most murderous, anti-democratic, terrorist nation the
world has ever known.
And get this, on the very same day of this
unconstitutional act of war, ethically-challenged
Charlie Rangel reintroduced his National Service
"Draft" bill. Rangel pointed out in his announcement
that the government lied us into the Iraq war that
ultimately resulted in the deaths of over 4,400
servicemen with over 32,000 injured. He claims this
is the reason we need a draft:
Based on false
pretenses of weapons of mass destruction and
involvement in the 9/11 attacks, the unfunded war in
Iraq has cost our nation not only $800 billion
dollars, but the lives of more than 4,400 brave
American patriots. Over 32,000 U.S. soldiers have
also been seriously wounded in the war we should not
have been in the first place.
It is because of
these devastating statistics and the commitment our
nation must make to sharing in duty and service that
I reintroduced the Universal National Service Act,
commonly known as the draft bill.
You can't make this
stuff up. So, our government lies us into wars for
profit and oil, thrusts our brave young men and women
in harms way against poor nations who in their wildest
dreams couldn't threaten America, and puts off paying
for them as long as the banks and China get their
interest payments at gunpoint from the taxpayer. And
now you want to force all of our kids to take
part in this sociopathic behavior?
Rangel continues:
Currently the burden
of defending our nation is carried by an
increasingly smaller segment of our population. Only
1 percent of the American population currently makes
the sacrifice of laying down life and limb for our
country.
Far too many are
being forced into repeated tours of duty, sometimes
as many as six deployments. This repeated combat
exposure to our troops is why 25 percent of
America's active duty military personnel suffer from
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It is why the
Army's current suicide rate is far above the
civilian rate at 22-per-100,000. The rate for the
Marine Corps is even higher.
Boy, Rangel is a
first-rate salesman. Who could resist the idea of
forcing their children into repeated tours of duty and
a 1-in-4 chance of getting ruined by PTSD? Or, making
them so miserable that they think suicide is better
than killing poor brown people for Big Oil profits and
their pocket-change politicians -- all while
bankrupting the country and their home towns in the
process?
Rangel's pitch that a draft would alleviate these
problems is ill-conceived, as he even pointed out:
"Having a draft does not necessarily mean that
everyone called to duty would be required to serve in
the Armed forces." Who in their right mind would
choose the Armed forces in this corrupt imperial
climate if given a choice of community services?
Of course, liberals like to think Rangel's hidden
argument is that a draft would actually discourage war
by making the people pay more attention to the wars
enough to protest. Wake up! We can't even get Congress
to vote for these wars anymore! The notion that the
decision makers will actually give a shit about the
people's will is laughable. Besides, we all know how
they handle peaceful protesters these days, despite
their lofty rhetoric of fighting for people's rights
in foreign countries.
At this point, it seems the only thing that can stop
these conquistadors is when soldiers start refusing to
fight en masse. They, and they alone, have the
power to end this insanity. As Albert Einstein said
"Nothing will end war unless the people themselves
refuse to go to war." God help them find the courage
and moral compass to end this tyranny.
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