jmdrake
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I've been talking about this for a while. Now I've run across the smoking gun. Obama supports a military draft. And he doesn't support the draft just to get at "rich white kids". He specifically wants more from the "urban centers" (i.e. poor inner city black kids) to be serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Read this from "RadicalLeft.net"
http://www.radicalleft.net/blog/_archives/2008/9/15/3885185.html
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In remarks that clearly pointed toward the restoration of the military draft under an Obama administration, the Democratic candidate said Thursday night that his job as president would include demanding that the American people recognize an "obligation" for military service.
"If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some," Senator Barack Obama declared.
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Will Obama Bring Back Conscription [Source]?
Obama's comments were directly related to building up the US military. He spoke at some length to offer effusive praise for the armed forces.
Woodruff asked him about the record number of Army officers leaving the military because of repeated, lengthy overseas deployments.
The candidate responded, "Well, first of all, as commander-in-chief, my job is to keep America safe. And that means insuring that we've got the best military on Earth.
"And that means having the best persons in uniform on Earth. We have that right now, but as a consequence of these wars, they have been strained incredibly.
"I think it's important for us to increase the size of our Army and our Marines so we can reduce the pace of tours that our young men and women are on."
After recalling his grandfather's service in World War II, in the army of General George Patton, he noted that his grandfather was eligible for GI Bill education benefits and Federal Housing Administration loans to help purchase a home because of government policies favoring the discharged veterans.
"There was that sense of sacred obligation that, frankly, we have lost during these last two wars," Obama said. "I want to restore that."
Obama went on to make his most direct statement of the campaign about expanding military service, declaring:
"But it's also important that a president speaks to military service as an obligation not just of some, but of many. You know, I traveled, obviously, a lot over the last 19 months.
"And if you go to small towns, throughout the Midwest or the Southwest or the South, every town has tons of young people who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"That's not always the case in other parts of the country, in more urban centers. And I think it's important for the president to say, this is an important obligation. If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some."
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If those on the antiwar left can't see this for what it is then they NEVER will see it. The people who live in the "small towns throughout the Midwest and Southwest or South" are mostly white. They volunteered to fight Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because they thought it was their patriotic duty. Obama doesn't have to worry about recruiting them (except for those who don't think he's a legitimate president because of the "birther" issue).
But inner city kids (blacks) simply aren't volunteering for the military like they used to largely because of the wars. The military industrial complex that controls Barack H. Obama, just like they controlled George W. Bush, needs more warm bodies. Had Bush said we needed more kids from the "urban centers" to fight in Iraq there would be HUGE street protests and possibly riots. But Obama can get away with such anti black racism because he IS black! He's no different from the Zionists who secretly negotiated with Hitler to undermine the worldwide Jewish boycott against the Nazis.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Black.html
He's selling out his own people! That's why black intellectual Cornell West, WHO CAMPAIGNED FOR OBAMA, has called him a "neoliberal" who is stealing from the poor to give to the rich.
That's why you saw a black man at an anti Obama rally carrying an assault rifle. Just because Obama is black doesn't mean that he can get away with this!
Regards,
John M. Drake
http://www.radicalleft.net/blog/_archives/2008/9/15/3885185.html
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In remarks that clearly pointed toward the restoration of the military draft under an Obama administration, the Democratic candidate said Thursday night that his job as president would include demanding that the American people recognize an "obligation" for military service.
"If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some," Senator Barack Obama declared.
...
Will Obama Bring Back Conscription [Source]?
Obama's comments were directly related to building up the US military. He spoke at some length to offer effusive praise for the armed forces.
Woodruff asked him about the record number of Army officers leaving the military because of repeated, lengthy overseas deployments.
The candidate responded, "Well, first of all, as commander-in-chief, my job is to keep America safe. And that means insuring that we've got the best military on Earth.
"And that means having the best persons in uniform on Earth. We have that right now, but as a consequence of these wars, they have been strained incredibly.
"I think it's important for us to increase the size of our Army and our Marines so we can reduce the pace of tours that our young men and women are on."
After recalling his grandfather's service in World War II, in the army of General George Patton, he noted that his grandfather was eligible for GI Bill education benefits and Federal Housing Administration loans to help purchase a home because of government policies favoring the discharged veterans.
"There was that sense of sacred obligation that, frankly, we have lost during these last two wars," Obama said. "I want to restore that."
Obama went on to make his most direct statement of the campaign about expanding military service, declaring:
"But it's also important that a president speaks to military service as an obligation not just of some, but of many. You know, I traveled, obviously, a lot over the last 19 months.
"And if you go to small towns, throughout the Midwest or the Southwest or the South, every town has tons of young people who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"That's not always the case in other parts of the country, in more urban centers. And I think it's important for the president to say, this is an important obligation. If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some."
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If those on the antiwar left can't see this for what it is then they NEVER will see it. The people who live in the "small towns throughout the Midwest and Southwest or South" are mostly white. They volunteered to fight Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because they thought it was their patriotic duty. Obama doesn't have to worry about recruiting them (except for those who don't think he's a legitimate president because of the "birther" issue).
But inner city kids (blacks) simply aren't volunteering for the military like they used to largely because of the wars. The military industrial complex that controls Barack H. Obama, just like they controlled George W. Bush, needs more warm bodies. Had Bush said we needed more kids from the "urban centers" to fight in Iraq there would be HUGE street protests and possibly riots. But Obama can get away with such anti black racism because he IS black! He's no different from the Zionists who secretly negotiated with Hitler to undermine the worldwide Jewish boycott against the Nazis.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Black.html
He's selling out his own people! That's why black intellectual Cornell West, WHO CAMPAIGNED FOR OBAMA, has called him a "neoliberal" who is stealing from the poor to give to the rich.
That's why you saw a black man at an anti Obama rally carrying an assault rifle. Just because Obama is black doesn't mean that he can get away with this!
Regards,
John M. Drake
And it's not just this one article. Democrat Charlie Rangel is STILL pushing for a military draft.
