Comments on: Rummy Shuffles on Domestic Spying

By: arley

arley — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:50:10 +0000

RUMMY IS FOR THE PARTY NOT RIGHT OR WRONG HE‘S A YES MAN FOR JR. STOP LOSS IS A FORM OF DRAFT .I WAS AGAINST THIS WAR FROM THE START . BUT NOW WE‘RE THERE LETS SUPPORT OUR BOY‘S MY OPINION ISTHIS ADMINASTRATION WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE MOST LIBERAL WE EVER HAD AND THE RUINATION OF THIS COUNTRY„WE NEED THAT INMORAL CLINTON TO GET US OUT OF THIS MESS, HE COULD AT LEAST GET THE BUDGET CLEANED UP/////

By: arley

arley — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:45:07 +0000

By: rutty

rutty — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:31:40 +0000

Apparently in-line links are supported. Here a link to some that nice, wholesome, home-grown literature handed out at these rallies:
http://www.zombietime.com/sf_rally_april_10_2004/literature/

By: Tartan69

Tartan69 — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 00:18:15 +0000

Before responding, I just want to clarify to NathanW and joejoejoe that I am a pro-military US citizen (from the planet Earth) that completely appreciates the job done by our forces.
On the subject of stop-loss, I would like to somewhat revise that part of my argument. I feel that the practice of stop-loss is wrong and should be made illegal. A contract is a contract…extending, breaking, or changing it without consent of both parties is immoral.
Having said that, if you sign that contract knowing full well that stop-loss is in place, you forfeit the right to be surprised when it is used. It doesn’t make it right per se, but it also doesn’t remove your responsibility to know what kind of situation you are signing yourself up for. If you missed reading that part of the proverbial fine print, that isn’t the military’s fault.
In any case, the main point of my argument was simply that you have to live with the choices you make in life…too many people in our entitlement-based society want to always blame someone else for their own troubles when decisions they have made don’t go the way they would like. Just as my working at the behest of my employer is the price I must pay to garner a salary, the GI Bill money (or other benefits) that comes with service isn’t free.

By: Rightwing

Rightwing — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:43:01 +0000

While I am completely appreciative of the service performed by our military personel, I do have to agree with Tartan69.
We have a 100% VOLUNTEER military.
No one FORCED them to sign up.
Many of them VOLUNTEERED during a time of war, what did they think would happen? I’m sorry they didn’t get sent to patrol the beaches on Maui, but that’s life.

By: joejoejoe

joejoejoe — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:46:30 +0000

From the Christian Science Monitor, 1/31/06:
“Stop-loss,” a policy used by the Army to keep US soldiers and reservists in the military beyond the date when their service was supposed to end, has been used on more than 50,000 members of the armed forces since the war in Iraq began. Currently stop-loss is being used to extend the duty of 12,500 troops.
A recent Pentagon report written for the Department of Defense by Andrew Krepinevich, a former military officer, said stop-loss was a “short-term fix” enabling the Army to meet deployment requirements, but that such policies “risk breaking the force as recruitment and retention problems mount.“
But I guess ‘that’s life’, right Tartan69?

By: NathanW

NathanW — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:22:57 +0000

“They can leave if they want.“
You can’t be serious. What country are you from? Planet?

By: Jefferson

Jefferson — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:01:19 +0000

What part of the the Constitution don’t you understand, Rummie? The President has neither the power to create, interpret, re-interpret, ignore or change LAW. Why do we even have a Congress and a Judiciary branch if the President can just create and interpret LAW himself???
We’re fighting and dying for Iraqi’s freedoms while you STEAL OURS here at home?!?!?
You’re pre-1776 mentality is downright UN-AMERICAN.
If you were so dead set on eliminating any restrictions set forth in the FISA ACT, the why didn’t you just follow the Constitution and the LAW and petition Congress to CHANGE THE LAW??
Do you think our Founding Fathers would agree with your new fangled, “unitary executive” theory??
Or would they decry that “unitary executive” is just another term for KING!?!?!

By: Tartan69

Tartan69 — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:49:26 +0000

What's wrong the the "thank you for volunteering" answer? He's right...they ARE all volunteers. They weren't drafted or otherwise forced. They can leave if they want. If they choose that career, they have to take the good with the bad. In my job (technology consulting), I don't always get staffed on the "good" projects I want either. That's life.