The Ice Cream Guy does some great stuff.
This was in my mail this morning. I have nothing to add!
Tell the Pentagon to Leave Our Children Alone
Dear Jon,
”A gripping, emotional anti-war ballad of the experience of a GI in Iraq”
- Amazon.com
Grammy-winning guitarist Robert Cray just released his new song about a soldier in Iraq, and it’s [...]
Some things take too long to get to.:nono:
This is required reading for anyone.
I just read it. Sounds like it was written yesterday.
Not the 1930’s
“War is a Racket”
By Major General Smedley Butler
WAR is a racket. It always has been.
:dollar:
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the
most vicious. It is the only one [...]
The Telegraph - American Army soldiers are deserting and fleeing to Canada rather than fight in Iraq, rekindling memories of the thousands of draft-dodgers who flooded north to avoid service in Vietnam.
An estimated 5,500 men and women have deserted since the invasion of Iraq, reflecting Washington’s growing problems with troop morale.
Jeremy Hinzman, 26, from South [...]
NYT In the latest signs of strains on the military from the war in Iraq, the Army National Guard announced on Thursday that it had fallen 30 percent below its recruiting goals in the last two months and would offer new incentives, including enlistment bonuses of up to $15,000.
In addition, the head of the National [...]
For driver’s license, Louisiana boys must register for the draft
ALEXANDRIA (AP) - When Larry Chevalier took his son to get his first driver’s license, he was floored to discover that to get it, the boy had to preregister for a nonexistent military draft.
”I just can’t believe it,” said Chevalier, whose 16-year-old son, Nathan, did fill [...]
