Reservists Backpedaling As War Looks More Likely

The Tampa Tribune | Feb 9. 2003 | Marilyn Rauber

[FloridaGeezer]

It's deja vue all over again.

[ChemistCat]

I'm for shooting anyone who "just joined for the college money" and "won't invade Iraq."

[CWOJackson]

Every last one of these reprehensible cowards should be given a choice.

1) Do their duty.

2) Pay back every penny they have received in pay, benefits, comphensation and cost of training, then receive a Dishonorable Discharge.

[tracer]

These bastards, who over the years gladly cashed their drill pay checks and watched their retirement packages grow, are worse than draft dodgers and deserters who never claimed to be patriots....

[Hemingway's Ghost]

"Sometimes they say, 'I just got back, I can't go again,' or 'I was just in it for the college money,' or 'I'm willing to defend my country but I'm not willing to invade Iraq,'" said J.E. McNeil, a lawyer for the G.I. Rights Hotline.

Now I've heard everything . . .

[anymouse]

But the G.I. Rights Hotline, which was set up by antiwar activists to help those who have either fled or are thinking about it, say their calls have more than tripled in the past few months.

"Sometimes they say, 'I just got back, I can't go again,' or 'I was just in it for the college money,' or 'I'm willing to defend my country but I'm not willing to invade Iraq,'" said J.E. McNeil, a lawyer for the G.I. Rights Hotline.

A credible source I'm sure. /sarcasm

Chins up boys, you'll be in Baghdad by March and home by April.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

I'm for shooting anyone who "just joined for the college money" and "won't invade Iraq."

Let them go to Canada for a real brave education.

[niteowl77]

The carefully concerted nationwide effort by local members of the press to destroy our will to fight continues. A few members of the Guard/Reserve and their families are playing the useful idiot, and we all suffer.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

This time around, with no overt aggression by Iraq, "a lot of people are questioning what are we doing, moms and dads saying, 'Why should my son go?,'" said McCormack, a former Army prosecutor.

Your son should go because he signed up to do so.

If you son doesn't go he should be shot as a deserter.

Simple enough for these people?

[Texas_Jarhead]

Bunch of panzy losers!

[Ichneumon]

"Sometimes they say, 'I just got back, I can't go again,' or 'I was just in it for the college money,'

College is supposed to make you smarter. Obviously it failed on these folks.

[ladtx]

Chins up boys, you'll be in Baghdad by March and home by April.

There ya' go. We can call it the Spring Break War.

[BenLurkin]

THey better hope their lawyers ae up to speed on the UCMJ because its going to be in play REAL soon.

[Mrs.Liberty]

My husband, a retired Navy Corpsman, would be proud to go! He would sign up for the Navy reserves in a second!

Oh wait..they won't take him..he is too old at age 41.

[TXBubba]

I have my doubts that college makes many people smarter. Unfortunately.

[Centurion2000]

Lawyers say they're being flooded with pamic calls from reservists who either don't believe the United States should attack Iraq or are worried about their safety, their jobs, their finances, their health or leaving their loved ones. The reservists are afraid to talk on record, their attorneys say.

"We have everybody from doctors to seaman apprentices wanting to get out," said David Sheldon, a former Navy lawyer now in private practice in Washington.

Kick these pathetic cowards out and fill their ranks with guys that want to get back in.

Of course they should also be fined the cost of their training in the military.

[A. Morgan]

Wait until this is all over, and then try 'em, convect 'em and lock 'em up!

[InspiredPath1]

Sanford is my Governor. (Rep, SC)

If he's called and does'nt go, he can forget about my vote or the vote of any other republican in this state.

[El Gato]

I don't disagree, although the case of the new governor is a bit different. Normally I'd say he should have moved to the inactive reserve for the period of his term, but I don't think that option is there for the first few years, and this guy's only been in bit over a year. But I guess that is what Lt. Governors are for. (Except in Texas, where the Lt. Gov. wields more real power than the governor)