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 Karzai Weighs a DraftPosted on Feb 7, 2010
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has tepidly announced he is pondering introducing conscription in order to build a domestic army and police force capable of taking over security operations from NATO troops in his war-torn country. Karzai’s statement struck some as odd, coming just a week after his defense minister said the army had no lack of recruits. —JCL
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By liecatcher, February 8 at 2:14 am #
KARZAI WEIGHS A DRAFT
Great idea !
Report thisThen Bush3 can outsource guarding the poppy crop &
claim he is reducing U.S. troops there. Also,
CHENEYBURTON can use them as laborers for another
permanent base there built with a non-bid cost plus
contract.
By munirardi, February 7 at 11:44 pm #
no war again he must think about the past, how was the situation of his country under taliban government very crowded
Report thisBy gerard, February 7 at 5:00 pm #
Oh, great! Then they can be just like us and the bigger their army the more weapons we can sell them! Jobs, jobs, jobs!
And we are s-o-o-o- good at “sending strong signals” like McChrystal says. Love! Peace! Hope! A happy future for your children!
Isn’t everybody onto our game yet? We are completely zonked on imperialism, badly in need of isolation, rehab and psychological attention. War pm drugs? No, drugged on war.
Report thisBy gerard, February 7 at 5:00 pm #
Oh, great! Then they can be just like us and the bigger their army the more weapons we can sell them! Jobs, jobs, jobs!
And we are s-o-o-o- good at “sending strong signals” like McChrystal says. Love! Peace! Hope! A happy future for your children!
Isn’t everybody onto our game yet? We are completely zonked on imperialism, badly in need of isolation, rehab and psychological attention. War pm drugs? No, drugged on war.
Report thisBy Aarky, February 7 at 4:04 pm #
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Karzai hopes to enlarge the national Army to 300,000? Goode luck because the members they have now seem to be mostly on hashish or are Taliban sleeper agents. They also don’t have the money to pay that many troops. We would have needed the draft long ago if not for hiring well over 100,000 additional people as back-up for our troops (at four times the pay rate for soldiers). That’s why our wars are so awfully expensive. The Draft laws were changed at the end of the Viet Nam War so that rich peoples sons would also have the chance of getting drafted, even though they were in college. So now you can start to guess why the draft hasn’t been re-started.
Report thisBy dihey, February 7 at 4:00 pm #
Apparently he does not realize that conscription is the fast-track to his overthrow and arrest.
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