I am sorry but I am running out of band width out here and have not watched the video clip....but by saying that you can NOT afford the war in Afghanistan, does that mean you WOULD still wage it, if you COULD afford it?

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For those of us who do not have superfast connections and still live in the "dial-up" world, Bill is suggesting that this war is little different than Vietnam in that only the servicepeople who do not have a job and cannot find a future are volunteering for this "Vietnam 2.0" shame... He suggested we reinstitute the draft without deferrments. That way, those criminals in Washington who seem to think the killing and spending in these useless conflicts can also know the personal dread and eventually loss associated with the murder of one of "Their" family menbers.

Bill is the last hold out of Old School Journalism which held that The Truth was more valueable than just being another "Bobblehead" achoring the sham journalism we now have in our totally propagandized media. Bob Shieffer used to be a hold out as well, but even he has folded to the pressure of propaganda. Bill is our last best hope for media journalism in this ever propagandized "Big Brother World".

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We have what...130 bases all over the planet.
Troops in Europe when WW2 ended before most citizens were born?
Have NATO in Afganistan with Europeans manning the infastructure and American's doing the warring.
The military is the largest portion of the Federal budget and we're in serious debt.

The country was doing much better before it was dragged into empire building.

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Now 8 years old and nothing to show for it but more dead soldiers and Afgan civilians. The "Guardian" had an article the other day saying that soldiers were getting killed because they are required to walk long distances out in the open because there is a shortage of helicoptors to transport them. And McChrystal wants 40,000 more troops? I don't think that he believes himself with regard to the war. If he does, he should put his money where his mouth is and request that President Obama reinstate the draft. If we are to impose a burden on our military they we have to increase the numbers. That would bring an end to the need for more troops. The American people won't have it. Except of course for the ones who are already in the military. They are for the most part,ignored. It's time to put up or shut up. ANNA

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The sad/funny/tragic thing is, that in Rebuilding America's Defenses, the PNAC [Project for a New American Century] wanted to establish the middle class (pg 23) in the miltary. Virtually everything that this paper laid out has been or is being implemented. Unfortunately for US, it's both sides doing the implementing.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/
RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
summary: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
article3249.htm

WHile I appreciate Mr. Moyers doing this report, I would not cavalierly throw out the word "draft". I would not want to have it implemented so that we could prove a point with my children. THAT is NOT why I had them!

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how in to hell can we afford to start one of these wars or multitudes of them in the first place? Apparently all this USofA is about is starting wars, dominating and stealing the resources of other lesser nations!

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I would have to see that to believe it. A draft where even members of the Bush, Cheney, Duponts, and Rockefeller families would have to go? I believe in ghosts, but I would not believe that.

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As ever, Western deaths are the ones that matter, even to such a thoughtfulsommentator. Don't you think it is time your country and mine was forced to face the depth and breadth of the suffering we have wreaked in two countries. How many must die before American public opinion deems enough is enough and 9/11 is sufficently avenged?

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God bless Bill Moyers. He has always been for making America and the world better. He has always worked for peace and harmony and people living and working together to achieve true peace and love among people. It almost sounds like an impossible dream, especially in these terrible times we are caught up in. His message seems like such an easy one that could help the cause of peace right around the globe. It's so hard to understand how the evil voices have gotten so strong here in this country. I honestly don't understand it. For every one Bill Moyers, there seems to be so many more of the Limbaugh, Cheney, Murdock, Gingrich, Kissenger, O'Reily, and of course the Bush types that seem to want to disrupt and hurt any chances of harmony, all in the name of power and money.
I think we have had our problems in the past that we mostly tried to rise above, but this mess we are in now started with the brutal murder of JFK. I just thank God for people such as Bill Moyers and people like him who always keep trying to make things better, no matter what. Thanks, Bill.

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