"Stop-Loss" loses battle in wider ideological war (Spin till ya puke!)

Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 04/04/08 | Gregg Kilday

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Even the cable news channels have shifted away from covering the endless sectarian fighting in Baghdad and Basra...

That's because the war is over and it just mopping up.

And that's going well too.

Hell, if WW2 had been covered this way, the war wouldn't have been over until 1974, when the last of the Japanese resistors surrendered.

We should just start calling it FDR's illegal war.

The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and we start sending troops to Europe. The men in the Bataan death march could've been saved.

[WOBBLY BOB]

you mean “Rendition” ?

I think it was redacted.

[fr_freak]

This movie plays on the liberal fantasy that the Stop Loss policy is a defacto draft. They will tell you that many soldiers and Marines who have left active duty have been recalled due to Stop Loss. What they fail to tell you is that soldier or Marine signed an 8 year contract when he enlisted. That contract has two periods of enlistment, one an active duty period, and the other a period in the inactive reserve where they are subject to call up at the discretion of the President.

That's true, but Stop-Loss is different from calling up the IRR (Inactive Ready Reserves). Stop-Loss just means that guys who are still active, but are ready to ETS (End of Time in Service) at the end of their 2/3/4/6 year active commitments are prevented from leaving active duty, which is perfectly legitimate because, as you state, all enlistments are really for 8 years.

However, calling Stop-Loss a backdoor draft is even dumber than calling a re-activation of IRR a draft, because any GI affected by Stop-Loss is already in an active capacity. It's not as if they are sitting at home, all fat, dumb and happy, and receive a notice in the mail.

[husky ed]

And to think our soldiers would have only had to been over seas for a year during WWII. Then come back home.

And Christ, I’m sick of seeing some news nitwit sticking a mike in front of some wife and asking her how she feels about her husband having to be in Iraq for and extra 6 months.

They should have asked my mom how she felt when my dad was gone during WWII, and when he took part in 7 out of the 10 campaigns of the Korean War.

[rollo tomasi]

Sorry, I was being sarcastic.

One of my favorite movies, Walken was brilliant and De Niro's method acting was outstanding.

[MooseMan]

No, I meant "redacted" (by Mark Cuban)

Fortunately, very few saw its rendition.

[WOBBLY BOB]

never heard of it.

guess I need a subscription to Entertainment Weekly or something. My pop culture meter is pegged at around negative twelve.

[The Black Knight]

You know, I think if they made a “Black Hawk Down” type of movie about Iraq; the profits would be on the same level as Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, or We Were Soldiers.

But the only movies we get fed about Iraq are Jarhead (Iraq I) and Stop Loss (Iraq II).

I know that the boys on the ground over there are doing just as brave things as the grunts in the previous wars. Why does Hollywood insist in not telling their stories?