Culture of Life Bush Admin: SEND PREGNANT RECRUITS TO IRAQ:

[elehhhhna]

Culture of Life Bush Admin: SEND PREGNANT RECRUITS TO IRAQ:

US lowers standards in army numbers crisis

Jamie Wilson in Washington
Saturday June 4, 2005
The Guardian

The US military has stopped battalion commanders from dismissing new recruits for ***** drug abuse, alcohol, poor fitness and pregnancy****************************** in an attempt to halt the rising attrition rate in an army under growing strain as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
An internal memo sent to senior commanders said the growing dropout rate was "a matter of great concern" in an army at war. It told officers: "We need your concerted effort to reverse the negative trend. By reducing attrition 1%, we can save up to 3,000 initial-term soldiers. That's 3,000 more soldiers in our formations."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1499164,00.html

[noamnety]

1. will they get extra pay

for those dependent embryos?

[undeterred]

2. send pregnant women to the land of depleted uranium

well at least we aren't acting like American lives have more value- now they are equally valueless...

[elehhhhna]

3. Upside? If the "insugency" kills a fetus, fundies might start enlisting...

VOILA! Recruitment problems gone!

[MountainLaurel]

23. Nah

Most of those fetusus belong to poor or brown people, and the fundies have shown over and over they don't care about those types: Only middle-class white balls of cells matter to them!

[Divernan]

4. They'll start counting pregnant recruits as TWO new soldiers.

And it should increase the incidents of friendly fire injuries and deaths to be sending alcoholics and drug addicts into combat.

[doublethink]

6. Yep the recruiting problems solved.

:bounce: ........ geesh .... :(

[beanball]

13. Troops

for the field of battle,a place where neo-cons fear to tread.Why not open up the prisons? or is that their next move.?

[ConfuZed]

16. Prisoners?

...Only George W. Bush would be that stupid to give prisoners powerful weapons thank goodness that moron is not president... wait.

[Warpy]

5. Will those pregnancies come to term and be automatically

counted as part of the army, since they were born into it?

[elehhhhna]

12. Super way to offset casualties!

[jean]

7. bush sends fetuses to war. they care more about that than the mother

[Qanisqineq]

8. NO WHERE does it say sending pregnant recruits TO IRAQ

It says they will accept pregnant RECRUITS. That does not in any way mean that they are sending pregnant women to Iraq. Recruits go through basic training and AIT, they don't sign up and the next day get on a plane to Baghdad. The pregnant recruits couldn't go through basic training!!!

Sure, it means that they will probably send the women to basic training and then to Iraq AFTER the baby is born, but let's not blow this out of proportion. My neighbor got out of going to Iraq because she is pregnant. Jeez.

[FreedomAngel82]

15. Question from me

I've never been pregnant but is that healthy for a baby in a mother's womb to go through that type of training??

[Qanisqineq]

17. good question!

I've never been pregnant either but I know women that have been very athletic during their early to mid pregnancy. I don't know. It doesn't sound very comfortable to me. Does your tummy bounce around at all?? :shrug:

[ginnyinWI]

22. I've been pregnant four times

In my opinion, you can be as physically active as you were before becoming pregnant, at least until the last few months--from the 7th month on, your body starts sending you signals to slow down. But you can't embark on a new regimen of training very easily--I'd think that would endanger the pregnancy.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. More discussion in LBN last night and this morning

Please click here.

[Bake]

10. Contrast with refusal to fund stem-cell research

This is the culture of life? Where's *'s "crossing an ethical line?"

Fuckers.

Bake

[undeterred]

11. post-blastocyst life

:shrug:

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Is this for real??

They send PREGNANT women to Iraq?!?!

[lildreamer316]

18. I'm officially throwing up now. Really.

excuse me; I'll brb.:puke:

[rucky]

19. but the little people inside of them are too young to serve

as ironic as a fly in yer chardonnay

[LightningFlash]

20. Great! Institute the draft...

Get all the freepers to go to Iraq, whether they like it or not, it makes sense that these republicans in name should be fully supporting a war that they support.

Brittany Spears comes to mind, she is just as happy about it and is pregnant correct? It sure shouldn't be those who do not support the war.

[gordianot]

21. If Pregnant women are casualties will they count them twice?

They could even have a double funeral with two flags.

[paineinthearse]

24. Have the May recruiting numbers been released yet?

I'm holding my breath.

[Straight Shooter]

25. Basic training can be very harsh in the psychological sense.

Many recruits experience extreme stress in basic training. Stress releases chemicals, and those chemicals travel through a woman's system and right into the developing fetus. No woman knows until she goes through that regimen exactly how it will affect her mentally and emotionally.

For that reason alone, it's a piss-poor idea. I'm against it.

Referring to the above poster's brilliant (in a Repub sort of way) idea of using prisoners, I can envision doors swinging open for nonviolent offenders with the idea of exchanging time in Iraq with equal or double time off your sentence. Of course, bush can't advocate the release of too many prisoners because that will *cough* reduce the income for the prisons.