...to get your ass blown off in Iraq. And he's going to scour the country to find that ass.
After issuing stop-loss orders to prevent enlistees from retiring, extending tours of duty time and time again, increasing the frequency of those tours, and borrowing from the Korean garrison, the Bush Administration still doesn't have enough cannon fodder for its Iraq meat-grinding operations.
Now, the Bush Administration is proposing to call upon the IRS to help it "locate out-of-touch reservists":
Those in the Individual Ready Reserve are people who have completed their active-duty tours but are subject to involuntary recall for a certain number of years. For example, a soldier who serves four years on active duty remains in the IRR for another four years. The whereabouts of about 50,000 such veterans are unknown.
And the IRS, under the Pentagon's plan, would hand over their current addresses. Another triumph of small government!
What's truly amazing, though, is the incongruity with the Bush Administration's righteous rhetoric. If the Administration's "War on Terror" (of which, Iraq "was" just "one battle") were as crucially important and momentous as the Administration wants us to believe -- the very existence of Western "civilisation" at stake, yes yes -- you'd think that people would be lining up around the block to take part, right?
That we'd be a nation of Pat Tillmans, the new World War II generation. Instead, we're a nation of fucking chicken-hawks: "Track down and then send the 20-year-old wetbacks and niggers [who only joined up Uncle Sam in the first place in order to pay for college -- "No Child Left Behind", indeed] to kill and be killed, to torture and be tortured; so long as you don't interrupt my fat-assed lifestyle. God Bless America!, and wake me when it's over."
Bush&co has been using our military for training, bodyguards and scapegoats for their private armies; the mercenary contractors. These contractors make five to ten times more than US soldiers. They ride around in and have standard issues of better equipment. They impress these young men and women with their ability to flout law, military discipline and chain of command. The US military is dependant on them for logistical support, systems analysis and most of the other “glamorous” jobs the young soldiers can hope to get after they complete their service. Many of them are racist, fundamentalist extremist Christians who are waging a parallel war against Arabs and Muslims in anticipation of the Apocalypse. Since before the war these mercenaries have been in Iraq, raping, murdering and looting the country. They entered the country to take over the oil resources (just as they did in Afghanistan for the natural gas resources) and as long as they secure the oil, the Bush administration doesn’t care what they do. For whom do you think Bush will work when he's out of office? Cheney never has stopped working for Haliburton. They don’t really even want to win another term. Their private army is in place and they have set in motion the basis of the civil war they sought to instigate. The only problem they have is that too many of our soldiers have morals and they’re going to tell the American public what’s going on. Will the American public respond? Bush&co are counting on the economy being so bad that people will take what ever work is available and the only decent jobs that are available will be for the war profiteers. Don't forget we still have not been shown any PROOF that UBL had anything to do with 9/11 and all the facts that we have come to know have shown Bush to be a liar and a war profiteer.
Posted by: Muslim mother,sister&daughter of US GIs on May 19, 2004 11:33 PM