Damn it! I'm 18! Aren't you exempt if you're in college? I hope so, cus I'm to much of a softy for war.
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Damn it! I'm 18! Aren't you exempt if you're in college? I hope so, cus I'm to much of a softy for war.
As far as I know, they won't take people in college.
As Seeker pointed out, a lot of Reservists and Guardsmen are in Iraq. We had a group of reservist infrantry with us in Iraq. A few were old active army guys, but a lot were college students that joined the reserves for money. They never expected to be in Iraq. Now some of them are dead, and injured. It a shame, because I used to eat and joke with these guys.
The humanity...where is it going? Where are we taking it all? All I can say that I haven't said 200 times before: It that it is political stuff like this, where many times lives are sacrificed by seeing the big picture, but not the individual one(Being unable to see the forest for the trees), that makes me ashamed to be a human, that makes me want to seize to exist, just cause I cannot stand what we are doing to ourselves and to our world.
That is all I have to say...
Wow you didn't know that the President can create Executive Orders or Directives as he see fits. He doesn't need Congress to pass a bill. He doesn't need anyone, the Presidentail office has given itself solemn power over all administration within all houses of government. The Constitution means nothing.Quote:
Originally posted by spicefiend+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(spicefiend)</div>Actually its a little more deeper than that Spicefiend. Switch is right in regards to the US being a permanent occupying power to those countries. That Pact was initatiated after WWII by the United Nations Security Council. Check em out!Quote:
The bases in Germany, Japan and others that Switch mentioned are not permanent. We are there at the invitation of their goverments. If they asked us to leave, we would and in my humble opinion, we should. Maybe I'm wrong, but I consider many of these countries to be perfectly capable of defending themselves.[/b]
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that doesn't really add up. the president has no say on the bill passing congress... the people elected their congressmen and if the people don't want the bill the congressmen won't push it in order to save their jobs. the only thing bush can do is pass or veto the bill...
Here check this link out. Enjoy! :goodjob:
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages...per-phillip.htm
So why the hell did I have to take a test on checks and balances in Social Studies?!?That sucks, I didn't think the president was supposed to have abosolute power.. :roll:
Make way for the New USR...
The checks and balances are still there, and if you passed the test then I don't need to explain it. He doesn't have that much power as your saying though it has grown a lot over the years. If the president ever crossed the line he would get smacked back across in a second.
For this conversation though, he is right, the president has no say on the bill at all untill after its passed.
Well, I did say I could be wrong. Dp you know the name of this pact or perhaps the number of the UN Resolution? I'd be really interested to know because what you said makes little sense. The US an occupying force in Germany and Japan? Occupying... meaning to sieze or gain control of.Quote:
Actually its a little more deeper than that Spicefiend. Switch is right in regards to the US being a permanent occupying power to those countries. That Pact was initatiated after WWII by the United Nations Security Council. Check em out! *
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I don't think that's quite right, but if you have a name or link I could look at, that would be great.
Actually that's pretty much what it is. In the sense that 'occupying' means to control territory and policies of. The U.S. after WWII set up puppet governments everywhere, especially in Japan and Germany to make sure they will be democracies and basically imperialist strongholds against communism. But its not that they have much choice, imagine Uncle Sam letting Germany and Japan alone, they would have rebuilt their militaristic system up and came after everyone again.
Well he's not 'supposed' to. :roll:Quote:
Originally posted by ffx-dreamz
So why the hell did I have to take a test on checks and balances in Social Studies?!?That sucks, I didn't think the president was supposed to have abosolute power.. :roll:
It's hard to say.. read this and you decide: http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/draft.asp
Drafting females into the military? Yeah, at least I'm gonna have company (of that nature.) Now I'll need to control myself so I won't get dishonorably discharged.
I don't think it will pass. Like someone said. It would be suicide for bush or for anyone to pass a bill like that. Besides I don't think Iraq is a valid reason to start drafting. If it was over American Soil, then yeah, but for Iraq?! Pfft.
Also some just arent fit to be fighters in the battlefield. I think it's very wrong to force someone to do something that they are not fit for. I feel like they are just sending people to their deaths. I'll comment on this some more later.
It's less than a deal you make it out to be. Although Finland probably isn't going into battle anytime soon, their country functions perfectly fine with the choice of three years social service or one in the army (if I remember right). It's not unbelivable, most U.S. citizens are like "omg government gives me resources and supplies to live, and now I have to actually get off my lazy ass and give something back!!!". Fair deal if you ask me.
Although, I might not be one to speak. It is really doubtful that I will ever be drafted. Despite what most people think, drafts are not totally random. Some people are put in a higher "priority" than others. Being a only child, with alot of my family in the military, I will probably only be drafted in a very serious and urgent situation.