Extended tours of duty are challenged in federal court

[Edward Teach]

DEFCON ORANGE! I've spotted a board jumper!
What's a board jumper?

Welcome to this one. Are you evading the draft at another forum?

Just when we need him, Tom Ridge resigns.

 

[cjh]

DEFCON ORANGE! I've spotted a board jumper!

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Welcome to this one. Are you evading the draft at another forum?

i thought they meant it when they said week end warrior . . . .

thanks for the welcome.

 

[shereads]

But even if a miracle should happen and they do, hell, a few free concerts with Toby Keith and the gang, some drum beating by the media and a little slick advertising, they'll have recruits lined up begging to go to Iraq without any fucking pay.


Ed [/B]

I gotta disagree with you there, Teach. As a recruitment tool, these indefinitely extended tours of duty might be less than compelling. How big a death-wish does someone need to sign up for an open-ended commitment to a war whose chief purpose seems to be tricking the insurgents into using up all those explosives we let them steal?

There are areas where the marketing of the war could be improved. For one thing, "Stop Loss" isn't very inspiring. Remember Shock & Awe? Operation Enduring Freedom? That was marketing.

The Pentagon should consider rebranding the Stop Loss program with help from the consulting firm that replaced "global warming" with "climate change" and "religious programs" with "faith-based initiatives." There should be frequent flyer bonus miles for military personnel who get shipped home and back more than twice.

 

[Edward Teach]

I gotta disagree with you there, Teach. As a recruitment tool, these indefinitely extended tours of duty might be less than compelling. There's only so much you can do with a stirring theme song.

There are areas where the marketing of the war could be improved. For one thing, "Stop Loss" isn't very inspiring. Remember Shock & Awe? Operation Enduring Freedom? That was marketing.

The Pentagon should consider rebranding the Stop Loss program with help from the consultanting firm that replaced "global warming" with "climate change" and "religious programs" "faith-based initiatives." There should be frequent flyer bonus miles for military personnel who get shipped home and back more than twice.

Of course you're right, my bad. Bet they have Frank Luntz doing a focus group on it as we speak.

"Okay group, all those who like 'Noble Intervention' please raise your hand."


Stup Dity

 

[shereads]

"Okay group, all those who like 'Noble Intervention' please raise your hand."

I was about to suggest "Noble Sacrifice." Yours is better.

Operation "My Old Iraqi Home" has potential. The TV commercials would be very Hal Riney. Lots of soft-focus, slice-of-life images: an Iraqi grandma putting an apple pie in the oven, Iraqi kids decorating their bedrooms with American flags; a girl in a burka running to greeting her returning Marine boyfriend at the train station. (What looks more American than a passenger train pulling into Bagdad Station?) Poignant music, probably cross-over country/western.

To give the campaign real credibility, it would help if Barbara Bush, George I and the grandkids bought a home in Iraq and made a commitment to live there until there are no more U.S. troops.

Should we call Karl Rove? Or should we wait for him to come to us?

 

[Edward Teach]

I was about to suggest "Noble Sacrifice." Yours is better.

Operation "My Old Iraqi Home" has potential. The TV commercials would be very Hal Riney. Lots of soft-focus, slice-of-life images: an Iraqi grandma putting an apple pie in the oven, Iraqi kids decorating their bedrooms with American flags; a girl in a burka running to greeting her returning Marine boyfriend at the train station. (What looks more American than a passenger train pulling into Bagdad Station?) Poignant music, probably cross-over country/western.

To give the campaign real credibility, it would help if Barbara Bush, George I and the grandkids bought a home in Iraq and made a commitment to live there until there are no more U.S. troops.

Should we call Karl Rove? Or should we wait for him to come to us?

Oh I like the country/western bit. Keith Urban/K.D. Lang duet?

"Ms Reads, Karl Rove on line 2."

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

Oh, don't worry about that. Just nuzzle some bush (not the capitalized kind) or cock and talk about it publically. So far as I know, if you tell, you shouldn't be asked - no?

Shanglan

Ohhhhhh...now I get it

Good plan. Will do.

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

HELL NO, WE WON'T GO!

 

[shereads]

Oh I like the country/western bit. Keith Urban/K.D. Lang duet?

"Ms Reads, Karl Rove on line 2."

Put Rove on hold. My pedicure is still wet.