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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn ("In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."). --HP Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

The stars hath turned in the heavens once more: Mighty Cthulhu stirs. His dreams reacheth forth, communing with those with ears to hear. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! His thoughts trample down along the pathways of thy mind; thou knowest His footprints, each of which is a wound...

Thursday, June 03, 2004





And So It Begins...

The US Army has just instituted a "stop-loss" policy for all active, Reserve, and National Guard personnel: If your unit is scheduled to deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan, and the end of your service falls within the tour date, you will deploy with that unit and serve the full tour.

Soldiers will be notified 90 days before their units are to deploy, and by policy, all soldiers must then serve with their units until 90 days after they return. If a soldier's scheduled service end date falls within that window, he or she will be forced to serve the entire tour.


Your out-date could be 91 days from now, but instead you're going with your unit for the full tour--at least a full year--and then an additional 90 days to be served when you get back. Since most units get three months training before deploying, and another month to stage in Kuwait, you'd be looking at 19 months of additional service.

Not one stinking month of that will be voluntary.

And remember when I wrote about the IRR? The Inactive Ready Reserve is comprised of thousands of former military members, people who have either retired or moved on in to the civilian world. These are people who have served within the last eight years:

Also, for the first time in more than a decade, the Army is combing through the Individual Ready Reserve, the nation's pool of former soldiers, looking for specialists with critically needed skills. So far, 618 soldiers have been called back to duty under the program.


The neo-clowns already have two talking-points with this issue:
1) It's neccessary to "save soldiers' lives", and
2) It just shows that we "need" the Draft to be reinstated.


I have two talking points as well:
1) You can save more lives--American and Iraqi--by bringing all the soldiers home, and
2) You wouldn't need the Draft if you'd stop waging war for sick political agendas.


Thus are we witness to the still-birth of ShrubCo's™ Freedumb® and Demokracy®: When you force people to serve in combat against their will, that's called "conscription".

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