Apr

16

WHY AMERICA NEEDS THE DRAFT

[From VVAWblog]

When given a free ride, too many of us jump at the opportunity to mouth the words of Rambo. And we justify our Rambo stand by articulating even greater nonsense. Newt Gingrich once said, in explaining why he didn’t go to Vietnam when he strongly supported fighting the war: “I went to where the real war was, Washington.” I had no idea those bullets I was dodging on the DMZ were fake! Tom Delay, nicknamed the Hammer, claims he wanted to enlist but they were only taking minorities. Needless to say, that statement was a real mind scrambler for us White guys who fought in Nam. More recently, Christopher Hitchens, the blimp from England, whose vast array of rhetorical skills have been devoted to making war in Iraq, when asked on TV why he didn’t go to Iraq, responded, “I’m not good at that type of thing. There are others much better suited.”

Well, Christopher, I wasn’t well suited to have my leg blown off on the DMZ in Vietnam, nor was Jonathan well suited at the age of 19 to have the back of his head blown off in Iraq and his body parts returned to America in a body bag.

The Ugly ‘D’ Word (Stewart Nusbaumer on LostWriters)

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