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January 29, 2005
Billmon: Major Strasser Has Been Shot
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Kerry was the one who made the most elaborate, detailed (financing, etc.), and innovative proposal for a new draft. Unfortunately I did not download the proposal – a rather extraordinary document on the Kerry website, at the time. Archives do turn up all the preambles and some of the text:
KerryForPres
That said, a draft would be vile poison for the Gvmt. Now that ‘Tyranny’ has replaced ‘Terror’ it is beginning to look like a reality-based view (no. of grunts, bases, etc.) and conventional reasoning are irrelevant.
(Terror will mobilise people to register; a terrorist attack would have a huge impact; tyranny, however, is a abstract concept, specially when conceived of as existing only outside the US in strange lands.)
Posted by: Blackie | Jan 29 2005 18:32 utc | 3
do you read an “increase of 25,000 each year for several years” to be compounded like interest?
Posted by: dk | Jan 29 2005 18:34 utc | 4
billmon cracks me up, i love the reference to casablanca!
Posted by: annie | Jan 29 2005 18:45 utc | 5
“You must remember this
A kiss is just a kiss
A sigh is just a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by.”
Coatailing on Billmon.
Posted by: Kate_Storm | Jan 29 2005 21:36 utc | 7