In These Times

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• • 13 Jan 06
  • 11:54 am

  There's a lot here... First, there's the issue of the soldiers not reading the contract. When I joined the service (in 1990, serving through 1996), I read the contract end to end before signing it. It gave the recruiters no end of heartburn, especially when I challenged their claims and forced them to be honest. The personal responsibility issue is clear; if you sign a contract and are not personally responsible enough to read and understand it first, perhaps you ought not be signing anything. On the other hand, Skull has a point.. Namely, that Jay is certainly able to go …

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• • 13 Jan 06
  • 12:40 pm

  Rabbit wrote: "Was that Jay thinks truth grows out of a turd" I would humbly suggest to the Rabbit that fields covered in rich fertilizer will feed millions. ;) All I meant in the nod to Jay was simply that I will not dismiss an opinion as patently silly or untrue based solely on source. If a pathological liar tells you he's lying, is he? Ite Romanii Domun! :)

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• • 13 Jan 06
  • 4:07 pm

  Jay, I never said that you weren't allowed to opine. However, since you brought it up, you must admit that there is a weighting that is granted or revoked to the opinions spouted based on circumstance... after all, I don't know if I'd trust a theologian's opinions on why my air conditioner doesn't work... ;) To your second point, you are unlikely to be ineligible to re-enlist given the dates of your enlistment (unless your first enlistment was at the very end of the eligibility period, of course). Further, there are other paths than military... remember the "Americorps" that have been …

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• • 13 Jan 06
  • 4:11 pm

  Just a short note Beowulf... You claim that our service members did not sign up to fight an illegal war... Unfortunately, that is untrue. As yet, none of them have been drafted, and so therefore entered into a contract... their irresponsibility in not reading the contract first doesn't make their involvement less their fault. Both sides are at fault, friend... Congress for sending them, and them for signing up blindly.

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