cpal_747

Todd, Jimbo, and even Criton, now you too can step up and defend Freedom!

Lobby your Congressman now to get them to raise the age limit even higher, explain to them how patriotic you are and how you are just itching to put your life on the line to defend the country that you love!

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22612649.htm

Full article quoted since Jim doesn't know how to sign up to a news website!

WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - Faced with major recruiting problems sparked by troop deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has asked Congress to raise the maximum age for U.S. military enlistees from 35 to 42 years old.

The request, sent to lawmakers this week, would apply to all active duty branches of the military services, said Air Force Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke, a Pentagon spokeswoman, on Friday. But it is aimed chiefly at the active duty Army, which has fallen far short of recruiting goals this year, by adding millions of potential enlistees.

The Army has provided most of the 140,000 U.S. ground troops in Iraq and has also relied heavily on part-time soldiers from the National Guard and Reserve for year-long deployments there.

Krenke said the active duty Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, which are meeting their recruiting goals, were unlikely to change their current policy of declining to accept recruits older than 35.

The new proposal would not change the limit of 39 years old for those with previous military service who seek to enlist in the Army Reserves and National Guard.

The Army National Guard, struggling more than any other part of the U.S. military to sign up new troops amid the Iraq war, missed its ninth straight monthly recruiting goal in June.

The regular Army met its recruiting goal this month, but is still 14 percent behind its year-to-date recruiting target and is in danger of missing an annual recruiting goal for the first time since 1999. The Army Reserve is 21 percent behind its year-to-date goal and also in danger of falling short for the year.

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nutsXplanes

42???.....crap my luck!!! I need them to raise it to at least 43 to get lucky. Many, many years ago I tried unsucessfully to be in the USMC. I did great in my test. I had already some college to go in as an E3 and work either in avionics or airframes. Bad luck no green card, no enlistement. They took me out of the line 20 minutes before the swear in process.

I got to sleep in the base, get a physical, quite few test and dream to be a f*ing soldier. Never been so depressed in my life, not even when I got the boot from one of the mamacitas I had loved.

Give this old man a darn chance you fools!!!

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cpal_747

Only one response from Yuri.

I thought for sure Jimbo and Todd would jump at the chance to serve their country in battle. I guess they only advocate a military solution when someone else has to do the fighting. I imagine that there is a name for people like that.

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N2272V

MORON:

Main Entry: mo·ron
Pronunciation: 'mOr-"än, 'mor-
Function: noun
Etymology: irregular from Greek mOros foolish, stupid
Date: 1910
1 : a mentally retarded person who has a potential mental age of between 8 and 12 years and is capable of doing routine work under supervision
2 : a very stupid person

To summarize, only a MORON could make an argument like this. I guess looking at your numerous rants, you choose to support the terrorists who murder innocent men, women and children. I choose to support the US led coalition who is bringing democracy and eventual propserity to the Iraqi people.

By the way, how amusing that you found a Marxist Left wing web site that portrays the American leadership as terrorists on cards. You're quite a peice of work C-Pal. By all means continue proving my case why people like you should be on the fringe and kept out of the mainstream.

Carry on looney tune!

cpal_747

I gave you a chance to serve your country. Are you that much of a weasel that you won't jump at this chance? You talk the talk, let's see you walk the walk.

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N2272V

I walk the walk every day Cpal. You see morons like you seem to get stuck on the thought that you can only "serve" by joining the military. I understand how you can get STUCK on this as your tiny brain appears to only be able to process ONE thing at a time.

I serve by supporting our Government in their efforts to bring Democracy to the Iraqi people, who VOTED and have polled that they support our efforts to help them. I pay taxes, create jobs and I vote.

You see Cpal, there are many ways to "serve" your country. So run along and conjure up your next naive simplistic, false comments.

By the way, still waiting for your answer to my previous questions.

cpal_747

Way to put yourself in harms way Top Gun! How exactly are you supporting your governments efforts to bring Democracy to the Iraqi people? Paying taxes is the law, that is not serving your government. If you believe so wholeheartedly in the US efforts there, pack your things and go over there to help.

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N2272V

You know Cpal, you remind me of an old saying. Never argue with a MORON. They will just drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Carry on dumbass.

neila

CPAL 747, are those trading cards available for purchase? Just where does Karl Rove fit in? Probably a flaming card in day-glow orange to be seen for miles.

cpal_747

Way to skirt the issue chickenhawk, or is that how you got out of Vietnam?
Freedom ain't free, and though you could defend the homeland like brave old GW, I know that you won't be happy till you get in the sh.it.

Or maybe you really are a chickenhawk. That must be it!

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cpal_747

Rove is the Ace of Hearts, although he should be shot for treasonous actions!
You can purchase the deck through this site Chickenhawk cards .

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neila

Thank you sir! Chickenhawk cards will serve as a fitting adjunct to the "Iraqi Most Wanted" deck. Historians will write much concerning the interlocking pathology of the Bush Dynasty with Saddam.

Meanwhile the Chinese quietly laugh and proceed with their multigenerational plan for economic and military dominance. Lenin was just a bit off with his suggestion that capitalists would sell communists the rope with which to hang the former. Actually, it may be the Chinese acting as modern-day capitalists fomenting our decay. All is not yet lost, but the Bushies are busy hollowing the core of our republic.

N2272V

Treason? You know what Cpal, you're not just a moron, you are retarded.

Carry on looney tune!

N2272V

Gee. Another looney to join the looney tune brigade. I can see the education system is doing a bang up job pumping you people out of the school systems.

Here's a prediction and some info for you so that you can be MORE informed:

First, Lenin's predictions and his politics have been shown to be a HUGE failure. Anyone quoting Lenin these days definately needs a history review.

Second, the Chinese are not even CLOSE to being called Capitalists or a threat to Western Democracies. If anything, opening their doors is a larger threat to THIER system than ours. This is still a closed society with NO Democracy or human rights and is basically a ONE party system that still believes in the Communist philosophy. The only reason they have opened the door even a tiny bit, is because even THEY have come to the realization that communism does not work. Their only advantage at this time is CHEAP labor. Gee, I wonder why their labor is so CHEAP? Could it be their standard of living after decades of communist leadership? DER

Here's a prediction for you. The Chinese communist system will eventually implode on itself, much as it did in Russia, as a result of more open markets in it's limited attempts to salvage what is left of their disaster of an economy under communism.

In the long run, with PROPER education, people will realize that the Socialist Marxist ideal of a single party system where everything is controlled and doled out to the populace is a FAILED idea with no future. The American model, with all it's warts, is still the best system in the world and will continue to be as long as we keep the Marxist/Socialists out of governing.

Carry on!

mittelholzer

21 US soldiers have been killed today - they must be replaced!

N2272V

This kind of comment in light of the death of young men speaks volumes of the person making them.

Dismissed.

cpal_747

Better start lobbying that congress to raise the age.

Remember Jimbo, Freedom isn't Free!

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mittelholzer

Maybe you should ask WHO sent them abroad knowing exactly they can be killed there? How many mothers lost their sons? How many women their boyfriends or husbands? How many came back with a destroyed life? What for? Vietnam was a tragedy and Iraq is a tragedy too. There are two ways to act - either sign up and got to Iraq or do everything that this tragedy will be stopped! Saying "Yes" to the war in Iraq is saying yes to the death ot these 21 young men and many others.

N2272V

Maybe you should ask why terrorists are killing them and for what purpose dumbass. I realize that Germans have a hard time thinking while they have their noses shoved up Chirac's buttocks, but this kind of whining defies logic.

I am amazed with the inane deluded whining about Americans going into Iraq as if this was something the MAJORITY of Iraqi and reasonable people in the world didn't want. Your sniveling about American troops being killed over there doesn't provide anyone with any solutions for the issues relating to the world and the Middle East.

These men volunteered. They understand the risk and they accept it. Unlike you sniveling whiney Eurodorks, they also understand the mission and the importance to the World and Iraqi poeple of what they are doing and MOST, if not all accept that risk.

So please spare me. You couldn't possibly know the pride, and the sacrifice these soldiers families are making and frankly, they probably voted for the very man who sent them because unlike Shroeder and Chirac, they know he was right in what he did.

If you had HALF a clue you would realize that ALL wars are a tradegy. Unfortunately, there are looneys like Saddam all over the world.

Instead of whining about us being there, why don't you whine about the terrorists who are murdering innocent men women and children and beheading their prisoners?

I know this is hard for you to understand, but if the WORLD and the MEDIA spent their time CONDEMNING the TERRORISTS and less time making the deaths of Coalition troops the BIG NEWS, maybe these idiots would realize their murderous tactics are not working? DUH

But instead looneys like YOU and the MEDIA would rather focus their attention on the "attrocious", "barbaric" treatment of prisoners at Abu Graib and Gitmo rather than the BEHEADINGS that are a daily occurance in Iraq.

Loonies like you continue to amaze me with the level of naivity you continue to display when it comes to things like war.

Dismissed!

P.S. We are there, we will finish the task that we began and no amount of Eurowhining is going to change that. Capish?

tdh8192

FYI to other DACers: Jimblo McDonald (a.k.a. N2272V) does NOT speak for all Americans contrary to what he would have you believe.

He does represent, however, the "never served a day of military service in my life" type of chickenhawk who sits in his Ventura, California home and tells everybody else what they're doing wrong, why they're a moron or dumbass, all the while espousing what is wrong with the world and how to solve its problems with his simplistic black or white view of everything.

Jimblo, you're bullshit is all played out - time for you to move on.

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It's probably just as well that Germany is not too involved in our war against terrorism, past experience show that when the German military machine gets really wound up they really dont know when to put the brakes on!

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