The Draft

I am sock> But who is Bush to say what leader is a dictator and who isn’t? Doesn’t he become one himself in the process?

Not if Congress stops him. Iraq, dicator; Afganistan, dictator; N Korea, dictator, some LA countries, dictators. It's pretty easy to tell who is a dictator

btw, call me AE (Agent Elrond, yeah, real bad name change)

(AW> Why the name change??)
Pretty easy? What constitutes a dictator? Violation of the Declaration of Human Rights?

Yes...religion in general. To the best of my knowledge....you, yourself aren't religious...right?

"But Osama Bin Laden wasn’t ruling Afghanistan. Nor Iraq. "
And that my dear....is why we didn't attack Afghanistan...we got their help

Originally posted by The Omega
Darth> Yep, I read it 🙂 I think that’s kinda scary. I mean that you have to have rich parents to go to college or university.
And, hey. I still like “you” 🙂 Please, don’t think all Europeans and Middle-Easterners are anti-American! I’m not too keen on the Bush-administration and its policies. Doesn’t mean I think every single American backs it up. Would be the same as people accusing me of all the crap the Danish PM’s doing… BlaergH!

I realize not all Europeans/Middle Easterners are anti-American, and that most rational people don't hate the entire population of the US... I guess I should've said al-Qaeda, or terrorists... What I meant was that the people who attack us don't hate us for no reason.

"But Osama Bin Laden wasn’t ruling Afghanistan. Nor Iraq. "
And that my dear....is why we didn't attack Afghanistan...we got their help

Ummm, no. the Taliban were hiding bin Laden, so we bombed them back to the stone age (like they went far back)

@omega
No idea for the name change.

AE> So because the leaders of a country hid a guy, it justified bombing an already poor and underdeveloped country "back to the stone age"? 😑

The Taliban refused to cooperate. They were already hated. The world was against them. World leaders were for that war

😕

y u confused? Now I'm confused.

AE> It's that "we bombed them back to the stone-ages"...
That "we" and "them", as if the Afghan people in general supported Osama...
You're scaring me...

It's ok Omega. I'm still wondering why he said no to my statement, but said nothing to refute it really.

Afghanistan DID help us...they allowed us in their country to look for him.

'we'=US Mil 'them'=Taliban
not everyone supported the Taliban, alot hated them. There's a good reason to oust a gov't if it's opressive and hated by most of the world including it's own ppl. Seems like I just described Bush, lol.

No offense, but we're waaaay off topic.

Afghanistan DID help us...they allowed us in their country to look for him

Guys try to keep this on topic.

Which of you all live in a country where they do have a draft.
We have a draft here in Norway, but through the Norwegian constitution Norwegian soldiers that are drafted/in their mandatory tour of duty cannot be assigned to a foreign country for any kind of confrontation, on the ohter hand those who volunteer into special services of the armed forces can be assigned to it.
Norway now have soldiers in both Afghanistan and Iraq, those soldiers are part of what we call "Telemark Bataljonen" a special forces unit of voulenteers/professional soldiers.

Many people in Norway are against any deployment of Norwegian forces on foreign soil, their opinion is that Norwegian soldiers task is to defend Norway in Norway. The name that covers all branches of the Norwegian armed forces is DEFENCE they say the name sya it all. 😎
Well the world is changing so is the "threats" to Norway, I say the Norwegian military have to adapt to the present situation, and thats actually what they do now.

As a fotnote: The bataljons first task in Afghanistan was to redress parts of the gear of the US troops cause their boots WAS NOT suited/good enough for the mountain weather in Afghanistan.

LOL and that's supposed to be the best army in the world

we don't have a draft anymore finti, sometimes someone lets the idea to fly to bring it back, but those usualy get shot down pretty fast.

Originally posted by The Omega
AE> It's that "we bombed them back to the stone-ages"...

Many people in Norway are against any deployment of Norwegian forces on foreign soil, their opinion is that Norwegian soldiers task is to defend Norway in Norway. The name that covers all branches of the Norwegian armed forces is DEFENCE they say the name sya it all.
Well the world is changing so is the "threats" to Norway, I say the Norwegian military have to adapt to the present situation, and thats actually what they do now.

That sounds exactly like the US in 1914, at least the part abut Norwegian soldiers not wanting to go oversees.

at least the part abut Norwegian soldiers not wanting to go oversees.

oh, sorry, misread.