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jhasp

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25. End Selective Service NOW

Reply to Bozita (Original post)

Thu Jul 5, 2012, 01:38 PM

Jul 2012

This they went so my children won't have to bull is propagated by the Selective Service system. The SSS is barbaric. If the US government can't find enough willing cannon fodder then it is a good sign that the war is unjust.

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Didn't send your kid to war? Maybe you can send $$ [View all] Bozita Jul 2012 OP

We'd have a lot less wars if the ones who support them were put in the first attack wave. hobbit709 Jul 2012 #1

even simpler solution--- END THE FUCKING WARS...... NOW!!!!! stockholmer Jul 2012 #2

the wars were fought on behalf of corporate America. She needs to knock on those doors, not mine. notadmblnd Jul 2012 #3

Agreed (mostly) Bozvotros Jul 2012 #10

Well said agent46 Jul 2012 #19

How odd, here I thought that we paid taxes partially to fund the military and to help cstanleytech Jul 2012 #4

Fuck that bullshit. JVS Jul 2012 #5

Riiiight... StateApparatus Jul 2012 #6

Wow...The writer fell for it hook, line and sinker Blue_Tires Jul 2012 #7

I'm gonna give the writer the benefit of the doubt, and assume that they are just a willing hack Tom Ripley Jul 2012 #18

How does one "send their kid" to war? NYC Liberal Jul 2012 #8

In the same sense that some have claimed... Mike_Valentine Jul 2012 #14

"I have dedicated a son to the Fuehrer." DavidDvorkin Jul 2012 #9

Taxes- I pay them... awoke_in_2003 Jul 2012 #11

This veteran says "No." n/t Earth_First Jul 2012 #12

heard this before... dtom67 Jul 2012 #13

What about Corporate Persons? Trillo Jul 2012 #15

Should be knock, knock, knockin' on the doors of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice, and Rummy... AzDar Jul 2012 #16

I honestly thought this was from The Onion Tom Ripley Jul 2012 #17

The wealthy just trying to assuage their guilty conscience fujiyama Jul 2012 #20

Nonsense. MrModerate Jul 2012 #21

How bout we arrest Bush Cheney Powell Rice and the other crminals who perpetrated this $3T scam? bananas Jul 2012 #22

"mostly related to obesity" bananas Jul 2012 #23

As a vet I do not want anybody's blood money payment of guilt. marble falls Jul 2012 #24

End Selective Service NOW jhasp Jul 2012 #25

A Better Idea: Bush, Cheney, and Their Neo-Cons Friends Should Send Money Yavin4 Jul 2012 #26

Wasn't this the practice during the Civil War drafts... YankeyMCC Jul 2012 #27

military-age children? surrealAmerican Jul 2012 #28