Comments on: Film Review: “Stop-Loss” (***) http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/03/28/film-review-stop-loss/ The Oklahoman's George Lang Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:24:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: uslugi transportowe kedzierzyn http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/03/28/film-review-stop-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-72165 uslugi transportowe kedzierzyn Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:18:02 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/03/28/film-review-stop-loss/#comment-72165 “To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.” ~ Henry Drummond

]]> By: Mike Bailey http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/03/28/film-review-stop-loss/comment-page-1/#comment-2292 Mike Bailey Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:28:22 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/staticblog/2008/03/28/film-review-stop-loss/#comment-2292 I was one of the very first soldiers to join the “all NEW volunteer Army” in 1973 and went to the 9th Infantry Division the first all volunteer combat division in the Army, I was there in Nov 1974 when they let the last of the draftees out of the Army just before Thanksgiving, talk about a party and old boots slung across the phone lines they were everywhere. Beer was every where, it was a post wide party that lasted about 3 days. The draft was over. On Jan 1975 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was made the youngest Secretary of Defense ever in our nations history, and I find it more than ironic that is was this azzhat that invoked “stop-loss” the “back door draft” on men and women who had fulfilled their contracts and should have gone into the IRR like the millions of men and women before them since 1976.

It makes me more than a little frustrated to know that Nixons proteges Cheney and Rumsfeld and George H.W. Bush (he was UN Ambassador and then Ambassador to China when Ford brought him home in 1976 and made him head of the CIA) are the same men that lied this nation into war, and have abused the all volunteer force that they were instrumental in setting up after Vietnam. The policies of the Nixon Administration forced the end of the draft and his proteges found a way to make a new one (legal) but a real shitty thing to do to combat veterans. How many men and women died on their stop loss tours, how do they tell those families how sorry they are and how proud they are that they made them stay? I encourage everyone to see this film this is a true American tragedy.
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