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2007-07-31 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Bobby 2007-07-31 16:15|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 An old vet told me that after WWII there was a rash of hysterical editorials about the return of war veterans, "Trained to be rapists and killers."

He said that maybe they were half right, in that with the G.I. bill and enormous numbers of veterans going to college, the tradition of restricted female dorms and a prohibition of marriage went right out the window, and pretty soon there were babies everywhere.

Well, it wasn't exactly "rape". And they hadn't followed the military training either, which explained the babies.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-07-31 16:42|| 2007-07-31 16:42|| Front Page Top

#2 "We were able in the 80's and into the 90's to say, 'you have to be special to serve your country because this is difficult work'," said Lawrence Korb, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense. "But now we are saying, 'we are so desperate for people, we are going to take anybody as long as you can walk through the door'."

"...but we support the troops!", he hastily added.

Posted by JDB 2007-07-31 16:56|| 2007-07-31 16:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Who was President during the 90s, again? Because according to that quote, the problem started in the 90s, not after the 90s. Korb should learn to speak proper English if he wants to get a sound bite to take hold : "into the 90's" means that the system broke IN the 90's; otherwise, the term would be "throughout the 90's".

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-07-31 22:35|| 2007-07-31 22:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Also related reports of MS-13, the gang org thought to be heavily involved wid efforts to smuggle illegal immigrants tto Nuke-WMD devices for Terrorists, etc., entrenching themselves in the USA-Canada and going global bigwig.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-07-31 22:43|| 2007-07-31 22:43|| Front Page Top

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