Why of course. BTW ... wipe those hay seeds offa my back?
You don't think that a draft would turn the country back to the '70's again, do you? No, I didn't think so.
Wait. This cannot be right. Didn't Jesse and Al say that the majority of fatalities in Iraq were poor, black men kidnapped off the streets by the evil Karl Rove?
Oh the humanity!
Sounds like the military must be racist.
Don't look for this report in the ajc or other lms. Cynthia Tucker would have a heart attack!
And the other colors were looting in New Aw'lins.
Maybe they need to be looking for better "leadership".
Why of course. BTW ... wipe those hay seeds offa my back?
You don't think that a draft would turn the country back to the '70's again, do you? No, I didn't think so.
Ok someone has to say it, George Bush hates white people.
Who cares what color they were? They each sacrificed for our country. They are all red, white and blue to me.
Most of the victims are white. Obviously racism.
It's sad to see the race of our honored dead kicked around like a political football.
And this from the Seattle Times?
This clearly means, in the name of equality, that we have to start sending out all black patrols into the most dangerous runs until the numbers even up.
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In the country and the small towns of America, people are less likely in general to be affluent than many city dwellers. Some of the kids can afford to go to college, but a lot more can't. And when these kids turn 18, there is a masss exodus for "someplace else". And for many, it's the armed forces.
In the city, you have extremes of income. The "gentry" are well-educated, well-paid, and their kids have college funds, and their kids are not nearly as likely to have been raised in a patriotic setting. So they are less likely to enlist. Likewise, the urban underclass doers not produce large numbers of young people motivated by patriotism, because people like Jessie Jackson have been telling them for so long how bad America is. (Some of these people don't listen to Jessie and join up anyway, of course. Some very good, patriotic people come from this segment of society.)
So what do you have in today's armed forces?
Some people have been accused of using the armed forces as a Federally-subsidized jobs program. Some soldiers have sought to avoid going to Iraq on the pretense that they never realized that's what soldiers did, they were just there for the job.
But the big difference is not economic, it's bigger than that - it's patriotism that motivates most of them. And in general, whites from small towns and the country are more patriotic than the pampered sons of the leftwing elites.
The Washington Post ran a short piece on this report on Saturday, buried at the bottom of A-10.
Blacks must tend to be in the rear in supply/support roles while Hispanic warriors and white warriors are better represented in the front line and combat units
In other words, Charlie Rangel's conspiracy theory has been proven to be full of hot water.
Death does not discriminate.
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When I enlisted in the Air Force, I was told don't do it only for God and country. I thought that was an odd statement. I wonder how many recruiters in black nabes have that attitude? Or presume that black recruits are enlisting for the 'jobs'?
They are all American patriots to me.
It's sad that the nation is required to issue reports like these to satisfy the morbid spitefulness of a few.