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"Today we have a large standing Army of paid professionals whose profession is killing whomever they are ordered to kill."

And the problem is?

I've read some outstanding columns by this guy in the past, he must have had a lobotomy or stroke.

In ONE paragraph, reese called the military personnel disloyal ("turn against the citizens"); Marines are murderers ("Would you fire on American civilians? Yes") and lumped it all into Bill CLinton's Reno Wars against Americans - trying to re-write history to blame the current administration for clinto fiascos --- just like now, if you ask a person who started the Vietnam war? - they will MOST LIKELY answer NIXON. Try it!

charlie reese not only re-told the FALSE story about the Marine poll, but he also CHANGED THE QUESTION!!!! The original one had NOTHING to do with Gun Control - What is this? an attempt to blame the current administration and other sane Pro-American conservatives for the anti-second Amendment legislation that the socialists have been passing.

MORE RE-WRITES?

Charlie Reese can KISS MY A**!

Yes, I, too, used to read Charley Reese's columns- especially when he went after Clinton, he was very good. But he is a Libertarian (although his military experience is real) and he tends to forget a few things in his post-retirement screeds.

One of these "things" is that the "mercenary soldiers" he is describing are Americans, and not only that, but some of our best young citizens. Not a gang of bloodthirsty killers, or a Foreign Legion that will do ANYTHING it is caommanded to do (look up the FFL record in Algeria- I don't recommend looking at many of the pictures of their victims).

Any Army can be abused and misued- as I think the Army was by Clinton. It makes no real difference if the soldiers are conscripts or volunteers. "Scuttlebutt" about a military coup was just that- morose griping by an Officer Corps that had been betrayed. But I was in a Ranger Battalion around then, and there is no way on God's green Earth that we would have accepted any order to overthrow civilian authority. These conspiracies exist in the minds of folks on the lunatic fringe. Also, I might point out that Rep. Rangel is not serious about resuming the draft (or UMT, either)- he just wants to generate more war protests by raising this dire possibility. A typical Commie-Democrat move.