Why aren’t you currently serving in the U.S. military?

Not just Republicans-- it was fairly popular all around...

 

Too old to join (45) now. Also knee problems from playing soccer. When I was younger I wanted to fly for the Navy, but my eyes let me down junior year in college (I was offered a back seat, but I wouldn't want to fly with someone like ME in the front seat ). So I have been either a contractor or government employee most of my life.

BTW, for those of you who don't know (and I'll bet that's a big group given some of the responses I've read) a lot of contractors go to Iraq too.

 

Bill Maher sums it up right here:
New Rule: The people in America who are most in favor of the Iraq war must now go there and fight it. The Army missed its recruiting goal by 42% last month. More people joined the Michael Jackson Fan Club. "We've done picked all the low-lying Lynndie England fruit." And now we need warm bodies. We need warm bodies like Paula Abdul needs...warm bodies!

Now, last week, a Baptist minister in North Carolina told nine members of his congregation that unless they renounced their 2004 vote for John Kerry, they had to leave his church. Well, if we're that certain these days that George Bush is always that right about everything, then going to Iraq to fulfill the glorious leader's vision would seem the least one could do. And, hey, if it makes it any easier for you, just think of it as a reality show: "Fear Factor: Shitting Your Pants Edition." "Survivor: Sunni Triangle." Or maybe it's a video game, "Grand Theft Allah."

Now, I know you're thinking, but, Bill, I already do my part with the "Support Our Troops" magnet I have on my Chevy Tahoe. How much more can one man give? Well, here's an intriguing economic indicator. It's been over a year since they graduated, but neither of the Bush twins has been able to find work. Why don't they sign up? Do they hate America or just freedom in general?

And that goes for everybody who helped sell this war. You've got to go first. Brooks and Dunn, drop your cocks and grab your socks! Ann Coulter, darling, trust me, you will love the Army. You think you make up ********!

Curt Schilling, b-bye! You ended the curse on Boston. Good. Let's try your luck in Fallouja. Oh, and that Republican Baldwin brother, he's got to go so that Ted Nugent has someone to frag.

But mostly, we have to send Mr. And Mrs. Britney Spears. Because Britney once said, "We should trust our president in every decision that he makes, and we should just support that and be faithful in what happens." Okay, somebody has to die for that. Or at least go. Hey, maybe she'll like it. Hell, she's already knocked up. That'll save the MP unit about ten minutes.

And think of the spiritual lift it will provide to troops and civilians alike when actual combat smacks the smirk off of Kevin Federline's face and fills his low-hanging trousers with dootie.

 

That does pretty much sum it up.

 

Oh for crying out loud. Now we are taking our political philosophy from a guy who's trying to be funny. Pathetic doesn't begin to "sum it up".

 

Is a mer canary, like, a yellow sea gull that sings?

But seriously, well not seriously, but to answer your question anyway: I guess.

Depends on whether you think citizenship has value I suppose.

 

At least in his case its intentional... no disassembling and misunderestimations...

 

Are they like little yellow birds that can swim underwater?

 

This thread is 8 pages long and has remained entirely civil and pleasant.

What's wrong?

 

Well, I've got medical outs (bum knee and color blindness). I've also got philosophical differences with the current administration. Neither of those are the reason that I'm not in the military, however (indeed, when I was 18, my knees were fine and I was quite happy with the President). I'm not in the military for three main reasons:

1- I'm a literature geek. I always have been. When the recruiters called in high school and told me they had military careers for every interest, I asked them which one would let me work with Chaucer and Shakespeare. He went quiet.

2- I'm a born pacifist. I understand that force is necessary at times, but I've never been a very aggressive person. I was always the one breaking up fights, rather than participating in them. I was a born diplomat. I also have a fierce streak of individuality, so I have doubts that I would even make it through boot camp without being tossed out. I'm not saying that all military folks are mindless or sheep by any means, but they do have to assimilate to the military philosophy. The famous "break you down and build you back up" approach. People could scream at me, wake me up at all hours and tell me to do push-ups until my arms fell off. I'd still be me. And I'd likely be making sarcastic comments the whole way. My big mouth would probably earn others in the troup or whatever it's called about 8 years of KP.

3- In my 25 years on this planet, there have been about 8 months total that went by without my having a dog. I'm a dog person. I've had my current one for 6 years. Even the "lesser" branches like the Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard that I might be able to get through without getting chucked out, wouldn't let me have a pet dog, and to be perfectly honest, I'm not happy without one.

 

Leave it to a far right Christ-o-Phile to go and move the goalposts of this thread. You know you got that comment right out of the Talking Points Memo/Anne Coulter/Fox News. GO TO WAR YOU CHICKENHAWK!

Better?

 

Oh well, it was good while it lasted. Hey Magpie, you should have resisted.

 

Oh, you can't post too much of that for my tastes-- fire away.

I hadn't seen the DeLay quote about supporting the troops...

Saying you can't support the troops without supporting the suits is like saying you can't support the union without supporting the board of directors.

 

Do you have one for all the members of congress? I would like to see people from both parties who served and who didn't and their votes concerning the action in Iraq.

Be interesting to see who put their money where their mouths were.

 

I'm 16, but if I could I would.

 

I believe you can join the Marines with parental consent...

 

I don't know about that, but if I were to go I would want to be in either the Air Force or the Marines.