2006-08-26 15:07:18 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Dear Old Cobb, I know you have served in many wars during your lifetime. I know you might be grumpy now being 104 and all. Don't worry, be happy because you grew old enough to become senile. Bless your nasty old heart.
2006-08-26 16:43:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. You have a greater chance of being shot when getting drafted into the military.
2. Have you seen the pay for an NFL player as opposed to a lifer in the military???
Nuf said.
2006-08-26 22:11:02 · answer #2 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your view of serving America is a bit narrow. I serve the USA by volunteering with charities dedicated to ending hunger, educating children, and helping abused animals. I am politically active and embrace my right to vote. I am going to school for a career in medicine. I don't need to be drafted into the military to benefit my country.
2006-08-26 22:14:50 · answer #3 · answered by maguire1202 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
2006-08-26 22:14:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask 100 people if they would rather go to war or would they rather be a millionaire. How many people do you think will choose the latter of the two choices?
2006-08-26 22:24:16 · answer #5 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Id like to see you join the military!
2006-08-26 22:13:05 · answer #6 · answered by Greshymn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm no Bush hater, but I would not want to be in the mid east trying to stop one of the oldest wars since time began, them fighting about their own religions.
2006-08-26 22:13:54 · answer #7 · answered by Sheila 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
last time i checked, the NFL pays a lot better. plus, it doesn't involve a long campaign of killing innocent women and children in order to find weapons of mass destruction that don't even exist.
2006-08-26 22:14:29 · answer #8 · answered by thirty-one characters 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i haven't heard of too many nfl players being killed by ied's while playing. also nfl players aren't paid like peasants, forced to work in deplorable conditions, and forced to play long after their contract is up.
2006-08-26 22:14:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
u mean have your leg cut off or something
2006-08-26 22:09:36 · answer #10 · answered by Praiser in the storm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋