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mitty14u2

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Tue Apr 25, 2017, 08:58 PM Apr 2017

2014 Welcome to the new back-door draft Army Extends Stop-Loss to Reserve and National Guard

October 22, 2014

Sound leadership necessitates making new decisions as new information becomes available. You don’t continue the plan to reach the mountain summit when a storm approaches on the horizon.

Well, new information in the form of a committed and capable enemy in Syria and Iraq, strife in Ukraine and the Ebola crisis is available.

Yet we continue to stick to a plan that was haphazardly devised in the 11th hour over budgetary infighting.

Political expedience coupled with a serious lack of leadership in the White House and Congress has led us to this precipice. Everything is reactionary, and nothing is planned, when leadership is unwilling or unable to make decisions absent political considerations.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/22/welcome-to-the-new-back-door-draft/

Army Extends Stop-Loss (Back-Door Draft) to Reserve and National Guard

August 19, 2004

“Whatever happens in terms of the larger picture, I would be very upset, to say the least, if my son is hurt in Iraq,” said the mother of the Long Islander forced to remain in the 69th Infantry Regiment. “It’s a crapshoot for anyone in the military, of course, but his odds have been skewed by government manipulation. He’s been put in double jeopardy.”

http://veteransforcommonsense.org/2004/08/19/army-extends-stop-loss-back-door-draft-to-reserve-and-national-guard/

Beware of WAR Mongers, some go on to destroy Economy, they Double Down and let Americans holding the bag of BS and Trump is the best!

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2014 Welcome to the new back-door draft Army Extends Stop-Loss to Reserve and National Guard (Original Post) mitty14u2 Apr 2017 OP
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