The US ARmy is calling up retirees
http//www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-01-12-officers-retirees_x.htm
I especially like this bit
Ages range from mid-40s to late 60s and possibly older, and each has at least 20 years of military service.
There's a reason they pension you off at 40...
What's next - arming children?
Although around here many already are, perhaps they should just transfer the high schools to Iraq and encourage them to shoot other people rather than each other. D
Taking equal opportunities a bit far, isn't it?
Good luck to them. Informed opinion seems to think they need about 500,000 soldiers on the ground in Iraq to deal with the insurgents which is over double what they currently have access to.
(Nobody is allowed to say "I told you so" btw.)
Taking equal opportunities a bit far, isn't it?
Good luck to them. Informed opinion seems to think they need about 500,000 soldiers on the ground in Iraq to deal with the insurgents which is over double what they currently have access to.
(Nobody is allowed to say "I told you so" btw.)
Soon they'l say the American's with disabilities act allows them to call up people in wheelchairs... no one will be safe.
well actually one group will - no need to run for the border - just declare yourself Gay!
:lol:
What's next - arming children?
A draft
What's next - arming children?
A draft
Well close the door, then......
...and be sure to use one of those draft excluder thingys that sit at the bottom of the door and look like a multicoloured dachshund. )
If they really get desparate
http//www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13282758,00.html
wonderful, the things the Pentagon can waste money on.
Another proposal suggested spraying enemy troops with a chemical that would make their breath smell.
The "severe and lasting halitosis" would allow American troops to work out who was a foreign fighter and who was a civilian once combat was over.
I'm no expert, but I'm thinking that the breath of enemy troops that haven't washed and have been in the trenchs for days might be bad anyway... :o
The gay bomb is not a bad idea.....if they're busy rogering each other then they won't be producing a new generation of insurgents. Even better, some kind of infertility bomb that makes them all shoot blanks.
Even better, some kind of infertility bomb that makes them all shoot blanks.
Or how about an American Military Intelligence bomb that makes them all shoot each other.....?
*run away! run away!*
But imagine if terrorists set a gay bomb off at the Southern Baptist Convention.
/I would fund that operation myself.
Puts a whole new spin on the term "weapons of mass destruction" - maybe a new clause in the rules of war to allow a good lubricant to be dropped along with the bomb wink
Yep just call a draft and be done with it
Puts a whole new spin on the term "weapons of mass destruction" - maybe a new clause in the rules of war to allow a good lubricant to be dropped along with the bomb :wink:
Would mixing itching powder with said lubricant be a war crime?