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Today while browsing around at truthout.org, I started reminiscing about the good old days in the good old US of A.
Take the National Guard, for instance. Remember when you hardly ever saw a National Guard ad, because recruiting for the Guard was no problem? Heck, there was a time when every rich guy in the country wanted his kid in the Guard, so it just makes you wonder - where have all the Bushes gone?
- Remember once upon a time when it was actually possible to go AWOL from the National Guard and not be missed?
- Remember when forest fires, hurricanes, and floods used to be a little less scary because you could always count on the National Guard to be there johnny-on-the-spot?
- Remember when the job of the National Guard was to stay in America and guard Americans?
And then consider other things military.
- Remember when military recruiting standards once excluded people who've done jail time?
- Remember when soldiers were old enough to fight but not old enough to vote? Now they're old enough to fight and old enough to join AARP.
- Remember when an ex-POW suing an ex-US Secretary Defense was not an everyday occurrence? By the way, I'll start calling the POWs "enemy combatants" as soon as the administration starts admitting its use of weasel-words to dispense with the Geneva Conventions.
- Remember when GW "I'll Show 'Em" Bush picked John "Clothe the Naked" Ashcroft for Attorney General? Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse for American justice, GW picked Alberto "Torture Memo" Gonzales to succeed Ashcroft - and things got worse.
- Finally, remember when rogue nation was a term used for other countries and not ours?
Published April 10, 2007 by Alice Pfeifer |
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Alberto Gonzales
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George W. Bush
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