In case you missed it, RangerDown shared a link about the draft. This is the other side of the story, I don't think anyone should talk about the draft, pro or con, without reading this first. You might end up feeling a little stupid - I did
. This is just another link among countless others, so read this and weigh the facts. I no longer think there will be a draft after reading this.
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Originally Posted by RangerDown
Ok, back to the topic of the draft... (and I don't mean beer this time )
The Luclin server board has a pretty good thread that pretty much dispels all the panicking going on about this.
Basically, I agree with most of the people on that thread, it's somebody (prolly the Dems) trying to cause a big scare in an election year. |
Ranger down later gives this link
http://www.eqluclin.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5060
On a side note, it was said earlier that the serin gas found in Iraq was only there because Reagan or Bush gave it to them in the first place. I have no information to dispute that, and I personally don't care either way. Iraq used to be an ally of ours, then our national interest changed. The problem isn't where they got it, it's that they still have it. The UN, who many on this board think is the greatest thing since sliced bread and to whom you want to hand over the sovereignty of the United States (or at least the US military), demanded that Iraq disposed of all WMDs (includes serin). They didn't. The fact that they may or may not have gotten it from the US in the first place is irrelevant. Anyway, I think you just made that up about it comming from the US just because you liked the idea, not that there was any evidence whatsoever.
If you haven't noticed already, I am a conservative. As a conservative I admit whole heartedly, George Bush has not given me a decent reason for being in Iraq. On the other hand this is what I see. Who is it that our troops are fighting in Iraq? If you're answer is "Iraqi freedom fighters", that may be true. They may be Iraqi. They may be the average citizen who wants us out. The media sure wants to paint that picture. My problem with that is that members of the national guard upon return dispute that. They say the average Iraqi is happy with what has been done. Sure, they want the US to leave a soon as possible so they can get on with their lives, who can blame them? But they are not picking up their weapons and fighting the US, nor are they killing members of the Iraqi interrim government. The people who are fighting the coalition and the Iraqi government are using terrorist tactics - car bombs, roadside bombs, suicide bombs. They are trained terrorists. Isn't it strange, that in the war against terror, the US finds itself fighting terrorists? This is what I think. I think the US is using Iraq, again. We used it before when we supported Saddam Hussein to further our national interests. Now we are using it again to flush out terrorists so we can fight them somewhere besides our own soil, and with our military instead of with our citizens. Ousting Saddam was a bonus. Stopping "Oil for Food" money from funding terrorists was a bonus. Not being able to recover or find evidence of the destruction of the WMDs we know were there was a bummer. The bottom line is, what we are doing in Iraq is fighting the war on terror for OUR good, not Iraq's. This is my oppinion. It isn't set in stone. I change my mind whenever I hear new facts. To say that Iraq doesn't get anything good out of this is to be purposefully narrow minded (that's a good definition of partison). The people we are fighting are the ones who get nothing good out of a free Iraq. The free world should rejoice at Iraq's new found freedom. Maybe the reason Bush hasn't given a satisfactory answer is because he is just to afraid to say that we are doing this for our good.