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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:19 PM
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There won't be a draft, but there will be a ____
Let's get creative, gang. It's hard work thinking of other ways to say it!

Mine:
Mandatory Volunteer Military Education Service Agreement, Required
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Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:20 PM
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1. Hitler Youth?
:shrug:
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:21 PM
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2. Of course, but I don't think that's what they will ACTUALLY call it. nt
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Massacure Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:23 PM
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8. Of course not. It will be the Bush Youth.
Silly. :P
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:22 PM
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6. They've been on display for months
behind Tweety on hardball, and assaulting various Democrats during the convention.
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ForrestGump Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 08:11 PM
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35. Redundant with the Young Republikans
Amerika uber alles!!!
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Pig_Latin_Lover Donating Member (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:21 PM
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3. Super Happy Win Lucky Fun Lottery
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:21 PM
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4. LOL! nt
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:22 PM
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5. Plenty of graft!! n/t
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:23 PM
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7. Givin the shaft!! n/t
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SarahB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 09:22 PM
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39. Sounds about like it.
Extra double plus fun! :bounce:

Orwellian sarcasm to those who don't get it.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:24 PM
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9. Patriotic Hostage-Taking
"Sign here, son, or your Mommy gets it."

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ibeplato Donating Member (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:24 PM
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10. There already is a draft
it's called Stop-Loss.

We're sending Op-For from Ft. Irwin for pete's sake. We're extending tours left and right.

there are almost no more troops, we're not letting anyone leave for a long time.
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Kierkegaard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:25 PM
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11. A spontaneous indoctrination into a bellicose organization?
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:25 PM
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12. Spontaneous Indoctrination--very good!
Edited on Wed Nov-03-04 07:26 PM by blondeatlast
Think I'll start using that to refer to it.
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Kierkegaard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:27 PM
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14. I would be flattered if you would...
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:27 PM
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13. The "Patriot Corps"
And they better not ask me to participate.

This is not my president, and it is not the country that I once knew and loved.
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OldLeftieLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 09:25 PM
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41. Thank YOU!!!!
He's no one's President. He still hasn't been duly elected, the ratbastard.
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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:27 PM
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15. These assholes are SO good with names -- like collateral damage
So what would the bushie gang call a draft and yet claim they aren't drafting anyone.

Oh yes --something very patriotic -- and emotional --yep gotta have that emotional hook.

Homeland security Forces?

Homeland protection forces?

Homeland special forces?

Office of Special Plans -- no that name is taken.

Special Protective Units.

Patriotic Duty forces

These slime balls will come up with something really cute -- something to seduce the dumb young folk.
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FM Arouet666 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:31 PM
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21. 1984 brother
Orwell's double speak, the GOP read the book. Probably got a few tips from Goebbels and Göring too.
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FM Arouet666 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:28 PM
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16. Bush's final solution
to the stagnant economy and loss of jobs. Will find lots of work for y'all, right down there in the middle east. Yee Haw
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:28 PM
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17. Something like...
... (the Repugs simply love to create bills with impressive names and snappy acronyms that do exactly the opposite of what the names infer):

Fostering Other Duty Dimensions Enhancing Recruitment
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:30 PM
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19. Figured you'd have a good one! nt
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:29 PM
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18. All Volunteer Patriot Defense Corps.
However, if you don't volunteer, your driver's license and passport will be confiscated, and you will not be able to work legally, marry, rent or own any property.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:31 PM
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20. You know I was for stopping the draft but now I am re-thinking it.
Some how the country has to get their hands on who will send people to fight a war and if we need to be at war. I can not think how to do that. Once congress will do anything the President and DOD wants we are being ruled. How does one get at this?
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:32 PM
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22. The coming draft will still be for poor people only
I'm sure that this administration is hell bent on creating wars around the world. They are the rich and privilaged and they won't send their sons and daughters. They'll send yours and mine.
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one_true_leroy Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:33 PM
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24. i was thinking while you were posting. see next:
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one_true_leroy Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:32 PM
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23. Proactive Orders Overburdening Redeployed People...
POOR People, for short.
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vademocrat Donating Member (962 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:35 PM
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25. The Peace Corps
these guys take something & flip it 180 degrees...
I mean look at their clear skies/healthy forests initiative...





THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY
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greekspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:35 PM
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26. The St. Ronnie Brigade
Everyone gets a free haircut they have to pay for, a gun, and some green clothes. We'll take all that out of your first 7 paychecks. Then we will ship you over to uh, Donald, what country is that where the Troops of compassion are going this week? Oh...yeah...Venezuela. There is a lot of oil...er...evil axises there. By the way...you might want to napalm that hill. There are some brown skinned people...er terraist up in there. It only LOOKS like a little straw hut village. :eyes:
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:36 PM
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27. All Expenses Paid Junior Year Abroad program
at the prestigious University of Fallujah.
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:43 PM
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29. Or they might just present it as a new
employment initiative for underprivileged teens and young adults.
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hangloose Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:41 PM
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28. involuntary inlistment of the young and willing
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:47 PM
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30. The Revised Federal Pell Grant Program
Yes that's right you can go to college (if you survive). We the GOP support higher education in America and offer this program for underfunded youths today.

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Is It Fascism Yet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:54 PM
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31. Oh there will be a draft
Edited on Wed Nov-03-04 07:55 PM by Is It Fascism Yet
The plan for the draft was presented to the Pentagon on Feb 11, 2003. It's just sitting on someone's desk waiting till Shrub is safely re-installed. The plan calls for drafting both men and women from the ages of 18 to 34, and calls for "targeting certain groups" which they define with Mcjobs, which of course, the rich kids don't have.
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da_chimperor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 07:56 PM
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32. Freedom corps: because terrorists hate our freedom
It's possible. The part about the freedom corps, the terrorist part is utter bullshit.
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BoX o BooX Donating Member (643 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 08:03 PM
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33. Rapid Acquisition of Freedom-Friends.
eom
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 08:10 PM
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34. Temporary Aggressive Human Resource Reallocation n/t
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 08:22 PM
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36. Civil war?
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Is It Fascism Yet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 09:14 PM
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37. probably
We now live in a fascist theocracy, merely masquerading as a democratic republic, wherein votes are not even counted. There is an elephant in the room that the media is not mentioning. That elephant's name is Diebold. The Diebold tallies do not even remotely approximate the exit polls, and of course, cannot be recounted. Strangly, in all our history, the only time exit polls do not approximate the final tally is when The Son of a Bush is running and Diebold is counting. Everyone knows this elephant is standing there, why isn't anybody mentioning it? And then there is the elephant's evil twin..."early vote by mail ballots". Most Kerry supporters voted by mail, because they were wise enough to know that Diebold would cheat. In fact, the Kerry campaign informally and indirectly recommended mail ballots to their supporters, for this very reason. I voted by mail. I know my elections office got my vote in time. The day before election, I called my county elections officials to make sure they had received the "mail in ballots" from my household and was assured the ballots were received. However, this morning, the day after election, The Aizona Secretary of State's office informed me over the phone that my vote was never counted, my husband's vote was never counted, and my daughter's vote was never counted, because they were all "vote early by mail ballots", and the "mail ballots" were never counted. None of the mail ballots were counted. None!!!. Nobody was elected. The entire election was a farce of Diebold cheating and mail ballot disposal. It was much simpler to overthrow America than we thought. In a democracy, this entire election would be thrown out, invalidated for obvious fraud, and done again. America has always tried to export democracy, and now, who will liberate us, and give us democracy? I recommend that all of America strike, sell all your stock, don't go to work, don't pay your bills, consume as little of everything, (especially gasoline), as you possibly can, and run naked in the streets until our votes are counted. Or, don't, if that seems too much trouble. Shall we instead all migrate to India where they actually count votes and have all our jobs anyway? In 2008, let's just not bother with the voting farce, let's just move directly to Jeb, next in line for the Bush family throne.
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CAcyclist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 09:28 PM
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42. Patriot Corps
Edited on Wed Nov-03-04 09:34 PM by CAcyclist
edited because I'm drunk and can't read - so - do-over -
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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 09:20 PM
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38. My partner suggests "stop life"
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 09:22 PM
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40. Let's not kid ourselves. There will be a draft. Look at Bush's 2000
promises.

The American People are about to get what they wished for. In spades. The kind of spades they use to dig graves.
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 09:28 PM
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43. Freedom, Unity Creating Kind Educational Development
Edited on Wed Nov-03-04 09:29 PM by Dark_Leftist
bad, but it works for the situation.
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CAcyclist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-04 09:37 PM
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44. LOL
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