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   gendotte said, 4 months ago

   War falls on the poor because the rich got the draft stopped. Both of Lyndon Johnson’s sons in laws served in Viet Nam as long as they could, ut after tghat they werte eimoku gio br higir4re i8llerson hr rirfciuldm]\\

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   Oscar54 said, 4 months ago

   Ted you are awesome. You are a distiller of reality.
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   Respectful Troll said, 4 months ago

   Mr. Rall is a passionate voice. I would like to have seen him apply that voice to the recent HSBC report where a financial firm was found to be too big to prosecute after helping Iran, Drug Cartels, and other such groups to circumvent US and Int’l laws. One reason we are at “war” (conflict?) is because of the gap between the grossly rich and the impossibly poor. Dozens of nations are led by individuals who enrich themselves and their supporters on the backs of their peoples. Corporations across the planet encourage this abuse of the poor while falsely inflating the value of money over the commodities for which money is traded. The S&P suit being brought by the government is just another example of how a “self regulating” organization aids and abets these abuses.
   Money is a much deadlier weapon than drones and is killing many more people; it destroys many more futures.
   Hyper trading makes our over volatile stock markets unstable. The failure of our legislators to finance regulators in order to protect us from the next set of abuses from those deemed to big to fail, or to prosecute, leaves us vulnerable as a nation and as individuals with investments in our banks and markets.
   Corporations own media outlets and newspapers and perhaps Mr. Rall is not permitted to address these other abusers of our neighbors, or perhaps he simply believes the actions we are taking overseas are more important.
   I believe that if we create jobs, get our financial house in order AND continue to protect our children, elderly, wounded warriors and our environment, we can lead by positive examples rather than by threat of military or financial conflict.
   Respectfully,
   C.
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   olfart said, 4 months ago

   @ gendotte
   Actually, it was predominately the poor who got the draft stopped. If we had not taken to the streets, poor kids would still be forced to support the wars for the rich. Only the willing wealthy were drafted. If Daddy had money, there were deferments for those who wanted them.
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   Ransom D Stone said, 4 months ago

   Ted’s representation’s of our President are accurate as his descriptions of our President’s actions: None.
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   masterskrain said, 4 months ago

   I like the idea of re-instituting the draft, BUT, the FIRST to go MUST be the service age children, and grand-children of The President, Vice-President, Supreme Court Justices, Senators and Congresspeople!
   Let’s see how many wars we start then!
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   Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

   Ted should be a 5 star General in the military. Not in the American military because he would be bombing our own troops.
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   Clark Kent said, 4 months ago

   @masterskrain

   Don’t forget the children and grandchildren of the thieves of wall street, the megabank CEO’s, the megarich and the CEO’s of the big corporations. And the children and grandchildren of cheney/shrub/rumsfeld etc.
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   Ted Rall said, 4 months ago

   @Respectful Troll

   Yeah, I would NEVER criticize corporations.
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    Ted Rall said, 4 months ago

    @Ms. Ima No one kills more American troops that American generals.
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    jrmerm said, 4 months ago

    @Mr. King

    Irony and satire are forms of “funny”. Sort of.
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    jrmerm said, 4 months ago

    Next: Federal regulations require football to be played with armed drones only.
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    lonecat said, 4 months ago

    Great cartoon.
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    Fourcrows said, 4 months ago

    The US military is bureaucratic enough that even if they did enlist, his daughters would never get near a combat zone. Quite a contrast to Prince Harry flying actual combat missions.
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    jimschampanese said, 4 months ago

    How many of the Rep. in congress spent time in the military? Always remember Cheney’s declaration that during the Vietnam war he was drafted 12 times and given deferments and didn’t go because he had other things to do. I wished that would have worked for me and the 5 million drafted and 70,000 killed and thousands wounded for that bit of folly.
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