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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...

Tuesday, June 29, 2004



Grasping at Straws

Well, they warned us over a month ago, and now they're carrying out that threat:

Roughly 5,600 soldiers from the ready reserve will be notified of possible deployment this year, including some soldiers who will be notified within a month, said an Army official speaking on condition of anonymity.

A senior defense official said, "These individuals are being called back to fill specific shortages for specific jobs."

"It would be an involuntary measure, an involuntary mobilization," the Army official said. "It’s approximately 5,600."


The Army is in dire straights when they start tapping the Inactive Ready Reserve. The IRR is a roster of some 118,000 people who have completed their active duty time, and have since gone on to attend school, build careers, start families...Uprooting them and hauling them back in to active duty isn't something to be done lightly.

And to think, it was just last year that ShrubCo™ was firing General Shinseki for telling the truth, and then going on to reassure us that securing Iraq would be easy:

Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz criticized the Army's chief of staff, Gen. Eric Shinseki, after Shinseki told Congress in February that the occupation could require "several hundred thousand troops." Wolfowitz called Shinseki's estimate "wildly off the mark."

Rumsfeld was furious with White when the [former] Army secretary agreed with Shinseki.


And these are the same neo-clowns who predict that The Draft won't be needed either. I'm soooo relieved to hear that...

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