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popsdenver

(1,930 posts)
22. The draft
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 09:08 PM
Jan 3

was exactly the reason my car was all packed, wish I had known you were kind to people trying to evade the draft.

It was right at the time, when McNamara decided he needed an additional 25,000? 250,000? draftees for the Tet Offensive coming in a couple of short months.......
Wiki explains what happened, those drafted at that time were called "McNamer's Morons"........He lowered the minimum IQ requirement, and told recruiters to go after the Black population. Interestingly, blacks compose 12% of the U.S. population, and black soldiers killed in Viet Nam were 18% of the total......

I gotta tell you, if I wasn't old, and didn't have kids and Grandkids, I would have come up anyway in 2000 when Cheney/Rumsfeld got the U.S. Supreme Court to corruptly and illegally throw the election to brain addled WBush......

Hang in there, you are the only nation creaming the Republicans at every turn.......The Kentucky liquor industry is crashing, and most of all, Boeing is suffering big time due to the Trump Aluminum Tariffs, and Canada has very successfully re-directed their aluminum shipments to AirBus, leaving Boeing out in the cold........

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No sarcasm. By the standards HE set, he (and Wiles, Miller, Hegseth, Rubio, etc) RockRaven Jan 3 #1
If only The Hague had war ships and special ops... Justice matters. Jan 3 #23
Like I posted elsewhere.......... MyOwnPeace Jan 3 #2
Yeah, if I were France, I think I would be giving the good ole raspberry. OldBaldy1701E Jan 3 #4
I had a lovely visit to Paris. And I get your point electric_blue68 Jan 3 #8
I want to get to Tours. OldBaldy1701E Jan 3 #15
I see it's south west of Paris... electric_blue68 Jan 3 #17
Well said. yellow dahlia Jan 3 #21
There is no way popsdenver Jan 3 #11
On deck is Greenland. twodogsbarking Jan 3 #3
He will attempt to take Greenland with money, undermining their government. he doesn't Bev54 Jan 3 #5
Not really popsdenver Jan 3 #12
I know very well what the Northwest passage means to the likes of Russia, China and the US and others Bev54 Jan 3 #13
My biggest mistake popsdenver Jan 3 #19
Your best bet would have been trying to escape the draft from the Vietnam war. Bev54 Jan 3 #20
The draft popsdenver Jan 3 #22
Perhaps.... Shipwack Jan 3 #7
It is not oil in Greenland that he wants, but precious metals and minerals, same Bev54 Jan 3 #14
Stand tall and defiant! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Jan 3 #16
For the same reason our billionaires mchill Jan 3 #6
Go fund me? 3825-87867 Jan 3 #9
Extracted - not deported. Russia, if you're listening..... Marcuse Jan 3 #10
If you've got the military power to do it... I guess. WarGamer Jan 3 #18
We should be so lucky StoolPigeon Jan 4 #24
Apparently all you need is an indictment. n/t returnee Jan 4 #25
Your logic, it is good! Kid Berwyn Jan 4 #26
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