(03-12-2026, 07:42 AM)Ninurta Wrote:(03-12-2026, 06:07 AM)Kenzo1 Wrote: Wut is this?
As Iran War Escalates, Congress Passes Automatic Involuntary Draft Registration
It's probably just more of the bullshit flying around fast and heavy.
ALL drafts and draft registrations in the US are "involuntary" - unless you'd rather rot in prison than fill out a little rectangular piece of card stock to register.
I noted, with some interest, that these gents neither linked to nor quoted the supposed legislation they were whining about. If it's that big a deal, why not link to it so folks could read it for themselves? Smells like bullshit to me.
I had just returned from an overseas war when I had to sign up for the draft. The irony of that was not lost on me. So, I went down to the local post office and filled out the card, then went back home. I twiddled around for a couple of weeks soaking up some R+R, during which time I bought some life insurance that DID cover "acts of war" (you might be surprised at how many life insurance policies specifically exclude "acts of war"), and then I headed back out into the Big Ugly.
I figured that if they were gonna draft me, they could damned well carry their own soft asses out into a combat zone to find me. On top of that, I was pretty convinced that I could pick my own wars to fight rather than have some jackass sitting at a desk somewhere pick a war FOR me. That way, I could fight in wars I considered "just" instead of something that just pushed a "national interest" or filled some fat cat's bank account. Conversely, I could elect not to participate in a war that I thought was "unjust", or just plain batshit crazy.
The Iraq War was one I would not have fought in back then - it was completely unnecessary - although at the actual time of that war, I did consider singing up with a contractor for "embassy security" in Baghdad when one of their recruiters got in touch with me. Evidently, someone somewhere in the government had suggested me for the contract, but I seriously doubt it had anything at all to do with my draft registration. By then, I didn't care one way or the other whether it was a "good" war or not. I only cared whether it paid well enough or not. The idealism of my youth was pretty much shot to hell by then.
The US has not been in an actual "war" since World War II. All the others - Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, and on up to the present day, were not "wars", they were "police actions". No congressional declaration of war ever happened for them, but they just kept ticking along all the same.
If I were still in fightin' trim, I'd probably be on the ground in Iran right now. This is the most "just" war I've seen since probably the mid to late 1980's, so I'd likely be there, either on my own dime or on some government contract. It's at least as justifiable as the Afghan War, and a great deal more justifiable than the Iraq War.
This war should have been done long ago.Jimmy Carter should have done it while the mullahs were thumbing their noses at him and holding our people hostage, but he had the testicles of a gelded mouse.
Reagan should have picked up Carter's slack, but he had too many other irons in the fire to bother with Iran.
Bush I should have done it, but he was a wholly owned subsidiary of the "Deep State", or whatever it was being called back then.
Clinton should have done it, but he was to busy chasing ass I reckon, to really pay any damned attention to governing anything.
Bush II should have done it, but he was too busy getting our boys killed and maimed - by Iranian munitions and Iranian proxy militias no less! - in a useless extension of the "war" that his daddy took an ass-kicking in, too.
Obama should have done it, but he was too busy "appeasing" - talking with Iran just to move the air around, and handing them big pallets of cash in a futile attempt to buy them off
On up to now, after 47 goddamned years, someone finally grew a big enough pair of balls to do what has needed to be done all along.
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Because it`s legal mumbo jumbo these are often litle hard to understand all IMO
Automatic Draft Registration to Begin in 2026
House and Senate agree to make draft registration “automatic”
U.S. defense bill calls for automatic draft registration
US military: Is there a draft in 2026?
Not sure do i understand, but does it look like somekind of "draft on demand" where congress & president can just decide it when needed....
I really dont understand viewpoint regarding this war , which is the outcome of zionist policys . Both U.S and Israel messed up in the Midle East after WW2 . This is the mess that keep on giving, decades after decades....
If the CIA etc had any wisdom , they would do everything to de-escalate in the 60s and later.....but they just allways like to stir the pot do they ....and pretend karma is not coming.
Israel has done just too much wrong , it allways come back to haunt later.
War has changed as Ukraine war showed, techically i mean....drones are game changer .
There was democratically elected dude in Iran , The CIA wanted instal shah Pahlavi . The rest we know , and British were equally involved the coup d'état .
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