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bluerum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-17-06 11:25 AM
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12. If we needed to, we could draft millions of men and women
between the ages of 18 and 40.

The military is not so much broken as it is depleted, worn out, and mismanaged. The squatter has been using it as a political tool and a national policy tool, not a military. A countries military should be represented by it's citizens.

What we have now in this country is a military made up of those who have no choice. The option-less and poor who use service as a means to an education and a stepping stone to better their lives, and the zealots who have an ideology to pursue.

The saddest irony is that the fine officers and soldiers who truly believe in serving and defending our national treasures, are the very patriots whose trust and love of country have been taken advantage of and squandered by the squatter in chief.
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