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Flynn just started banging the war drum (Original Post) bathroommonkey76 Feb 2017 OP
Bannon has also been banging the China war drums. Initech Feb 2017 #1
"It'll be a great World War. Ratings will be bigger than the Super Bowl." nt bathroommonkey76 Feb 2017 #2
I don't think ratings will matter when the nukes start dropping. Initech Feb 2017 #6
You think Trump knows this? He's an effing moron. nt bathroommonkey76 Feb 2017 #8
Don't let a Flynn Fable take your loved ones - Support Counter-Recruitment today ck4829 Feb 2017 #3
They have started a draft...??? pbmus Feb 2017 #7
Draft? No draft? The time to get out there and support efforts to make sure Trump is not sending our ck4829 Feb 2017 #12
BUT this is the very reason a draft is needed. No deferments. NONE. Everybody serves. tonyt53 Feb 2017 #16
Here pbmus Feb 2017 #23
This is counter-recruitment ck4829 Feb 2017 #37
A draft is a huge fear of mine Bettie Feb 2017 #21
China has 2,333,000 acvive military and workinclasszero Feb 2017 #24
Not yet! atreides1 Feb 2017 #34
All this talk of wars...plural...I just can't imagine that the populace would be all in. TrekLuver Feb 2017 #4
The next couple of weeks will be interesting. bathroommonkey76 Feb 2017 #15
don't you think one of those bdamomma Feb 2017 #20
Yes...something just has to give...we are not going to war over some manufactured bullshit. TrekLuver Feb 2017 #25
Its been done before workinclasszero Feb 2017 #29
Uh...American's weren't all in on orange Hitler being President either...Hillary won by 3 million votes workinclasszero Feb 2017 #26
The orange tide will turn if the DARE try to get us into some bullshit war. TrekLuver Feb 2017 #35
Nah, it'll be 6 days and MiniPootin and THAT operation will be fucked up like the last one he did uponit7771 Feb 2017 #5
much sooner AlexSFCA Feb 2017 #9
Does Congress support an all-out war with Iran??? C_U_L8R Feb 2017 #10
The GOP will do whatever Comrade Trump tells them. nt bathroommonkey76 Feb 2017 #11
what total annihilation of the world??? bdamomma Feb 2017 #22
Decency? Humanity? Has the GOP had any the past 9 years? bathroommonkey76 Feb 2017 #27
What grown ass men afraid of this sick ass bully???? bdamomma Feb 2017 #41
Yup they will ride the tiger for all its worth workinclasszero Feb 2017 #31
The side goal is to quell dissent Loge23 Feb 2017 #13
Bingo. We will fall apart like Czarist Russia did in 1917. roamer65 Feb 2017 #39
Read the Steele dossier...19% oil share in Russian state oil co. Was offered to dRumph... Frogg Feb 2017 #14
Do you have a link? nt bathroommonkey76 Feb 2017 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author Native Feb 2017 #33
right here this may be worth reading bdamomma Feb 2017 #42
Much sooner. GliderGuider Feb 2017 #18
These characters are just itching to go to war. Vinca Feb 2017 #19
It's just theater Blue_Tires Feb 2017 #28
Bibi will convince him. nt bathroommonkey76 Feb 2017 #38
Is this the way Trump gets rid of the sanctions? dem4decades Feb 2017 #30
McCain wil go along with this elfin Feb 2017 #32
Anyone who joins the armed forces under this administration is in for a world of pain still_one Feb 2017 #36
6 months? kentuck Feb 2017 #40

ck4829

(35,094 posts)
12. Draft? No draft? The time to get out there and support efforts to make sure Trump is not sending our
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:09 PM
Feb 2017

young people to fight Iran's or China's young people for some stupid cause that they are probably making up right now while snorting meth off of a prostitute's body needed to begin yesterday.

 

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
16. BUT this is the very reason a draft is needed. No deferments. NONE. Everybody serves.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:17 PM
Feb 2017

This will put even kids of the wealthy in harms way ad for that reason, they will fight against it.

pbmus

(12,422 posts)
23. Here
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:38 PM
Feb 2017

This may be a nation with an all-volunteer military, one that ended conscription more than 40 years ago, but federal law still requires men ages 18 to 25 to register for a draft that does not exist. There are few exemptions and no second chances.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/10/16/america-may-never-have-a-draft-again-but-were-still-punishing-low-income-men-for-not-registering/?utm_term=.9001bea86e7d

Bettie

(16,132 posts)
21. A draft is a huge fear of mine
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:31 PM
Feb 2017

I have a 15 (almost 16) and 14 year old boys. They will be old enough to be fed into a war for DumpsterFire's ego.

Yes, I know we have an all volunteer army, now. But if we are at war with China? I have no doubt they will have to have a draft.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
24. China has 2,333,000 acvive military and
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:43 PM
Feb 2017

510,000 in reserve.

And Bannon is foaming at the mouth to attack them.

Gonna require the needless deaths of many American kids for that.

But the MIC will be laughing all the way to the bank.

atreides1

(16,094 posts)
34. Not yet!
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:57 PM
Feb 2017

But it can be up and running in 60-90 days! And this time it's a completely different show!!!

 

TrekLuver

(2,573 posts)
4. All this talk of wars...plural...I just can't imagine that the populace would be all in.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:02 PM
Feb 2017

Is this what it would take to ruin Trashpot & Co? I say yes...Trashpot followers WILL NOT go for this.

 

bathroommonkey76

(3,827 posts)
15. The next couple of weeks will be interesting.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:13 PM
Feb 2017

Netanyahu and Trump meet on Feb 15-- This will give them time to construct a plan to attack Iran. We all know Israel under Bibi has been itching to bomb the hell out of Iran for years.

Feb 16 is Kim Jong-un's birthday-- The day rumored to be their next ICBM launch.

bdamomma

(63,930 posts)
20. don't you think one of those
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:31 PM
Feb 2017

many Generals will remove Flynn from doing something as reckless as this.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
26. Uh...American's weren't all in on orange Hitler being President either...Hillary won by 3 million votes
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:47 PM
Feb 2017

But who sits on his white house throne like a banana republic dictator?

It sure as hell ain't Hillary!

C_U_L8R

(45,025 posts)
10. Does Congress support an all-out war with Iran???
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:05 PM
Feb 2017

How about Putin???
And China???

These Trump clowns have NO idea what death and destruction they might unleash.
And if they do, then they are out of their fucking loathsome minds.

bdamomma

(63,930 posts)
22. what total annihilation of the world???
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:36 PM
Feb 2017

I am looking for some decency to possibly come out of this insanity some sanity and humanity needs to erupt.

What are they going to live (if you want to call it that) in bunkers for the rest of their miserable lives?

 

bathroommonkey76

(3,827 posts)
27. Decency? Humanity? Has the GOP had any the past 9 years?
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:49 PM
Feb 2017

Congress doesn't have control over Trump, if he wants to bomb a country-- he will! Do you not see this? They are scared to death of him.

bdamomma

(63,930 posts)
41. What grown ass men afraid of this sick ass bully????
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 09:33 PM
Feb 2017

what afraid to loose their jobs or lose their base of trump supporters??? to bow down before a mental case man. To sacrifice lives of innocent people for their greed and thirst for power?? they are and will be selling their souls.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
31. Yup they will ride the tiger for all its worth
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:54 PM
Feb 2017

They have dreamed about this day since Nixon. They have total power over the government. They will build a horrendous anti-science, anti-intellectual theocracy on the ashes of democratic America....GLADLY!

Loge23

(3,922 posts)
13. The side goal is to quell dissent
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:12 PM
Feb 2017

This administration will create a national disaster or war in order to bring the country together for a cause.
It'll never work with us but it will serve to cast dissenters as unpatriotic.
The next civil war will follow that.

Frogg

(365 posts)
14. Read the Steele dossier...19% oil share in Russian state oil co. Was offered to dRumph...
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:13 PM
Feb 2017

Iran is one of the 7 countries in the ban...big oil and ports to move it. If we move on them, they will need to ally with Russia...Pootie goes in, "takes the oil" as he occupies and guess who finally becomes the billionaire he has lied about being...

Sounds like crazy conspiracy but I am beginning to worry it rings very true...

Response to bathroommonkey76 (Reply #17)

 

GliderGuider

(21,088 posts)
18. Much sooner.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:24 PM
Feb 2017

Although by the time it comes to that, it may be a moot point as far as America is concerned.

Vinca

(50,318 posts)
19. These characters are just itching to go to war.
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:25 PM
Feb 2017

President Bone Spur's manhood depends on dropping some bombs and being a tough guy.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
28. It's just theater
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 03:49 PM
Feb 2017

Because Iran is tight with Moscow and nobody wants to ruin our special Russian relationship...

still_one

(92,446 posts)
36. Anyone who joins the armed forces under this administration is in for a world of pain
Wed Feb 1, 2017, 04:03 PM
Feb 2017

Those who are already serving have no choice, but there should be no doubt who these thugs are


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