If the U.S. were to attack another country with no provocation

[quadriga]

and you were called on by the government to help in the effort, drafted into military service, conscripted into some war industry job, told to collect aluminum cans or whatever. What would you do?

[bryant69]

1. Well the last time that happened President Bush just asked us all to shop more

Oh and keep our damn mouths shut. I did the former but skipped the later.

Bryant
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[babylonsister]

7. Ha! What you said. I don't know if I shopped more though. I

didn't shop less, if that counts. But the encouragement to zip the lip made me want to break the zipper.

[Ordr]

2. Good question.

If it is a legal war that is unprovoked by our currently horrific interventionist actions, I would do whatever is necessary to defend the country. If that includs being drafted into military service, so be it.

(Edit: I misread the topic. See post titled "I'm an idiot".)

[Tyler Durden]

5. "Unprovoked" War is by definition Illegal.

An unprovoked attack on another nation is described by the Nuremberg protocols as a "...War of Aggression...", defined as a "Crime Against Humanity."

Bothers me on a daily basis, with every nickel in taxes that I pay.

[Ordr]

8. I'm an idiot.

I read the original post as "if the US were to be attacked".
This country cannot legally engage in a war with anyone unless we are attacked first. Period.

[Tyler Durden]

19. No you're not.

Just go "AHA! I got those confused."

Always works for ME.

[havocmom]

3. Intrestingly question to get people to telegraph intentions in this day of spying on citizens

but, that aside, why do you ask, after being with us for all of a week?

[quadriga]

4. Grab the pitchforks!!!

It's just a question, please be sure to spell your name correctly as the NSA frowns on mispellings, it makes their jobs that much harder.

[havocmom]

9. Considering DHS was just in my small rural town with a Black Hawk the other day...

I answer no questions.

And what is DHS doing landing Black Hawks in Montana anyway?

[quadriga]

21. You think I'm an agent for Dep't of Homeland Security?

Seek help. It was a Border Patrol helicopter. Pretty long border there in Montana.

[havocmom]

22. You flatter your deluded self. Where the fuck did you get me thinking anything like that

You are so unimportant to me. My point is people online need to be circumspect with what they post in a public forum at a time in our history when those in power do not operate within the laws of our nation.

Let some air outta your hair. It was NOT a border patrol helicoper. It was WELL publicized DHS. I was here, you were not. Get some help with that ego.

[quadriga]

23. Border Patrol is Department of Homeland Security

Can I recommend you educate yourself?

[havocmom]

25. These guys were NOT Border Patrol

16 years living on AZ/Mexican border and 12 in Montana = I know what the uniform looks like.

Border Patrol is PART of DHS but not all of it. These guys were not Border Patrol

I was there, you were not. I know what I know; you do not know what I know, but you seem to get a good workout jumping to conclusions based on what you do not know about me and what I know/witness :rofl:

edited for typo made while trying to type while rolling on the floor laughing

[timtom]

11. I don't mean to be an alarmist

but I've always been curious about profiles with little information and "undeclared" gender.

There could be absolutely nothing to this...just sayin', is all.

[havocmom]

20. Especially when they want people to make incriminating statements on days when NSA spying is news

again.

More NSA spying on Americans?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/NSA_quietly_expands_domestic_spying_program_0310.html

Not the time to be answering delicate questions posed by complete strangers!

[Richard Steele]

18. Interesting indeed. nm

[Echo In Light]

6. Tell Big Brother, Inc to fight their own corporate war for profit, cause that's ALL it is

[havocmom]

10. CEOs to the front!

That is a tactic I could support!

[Echo In Light]

12. LOL Remember the Crimson Insurance sketch @the start of Monty Python's Meaning of Life?

[spanone]

13. if????.....we already attacked iraq with no provocation...

[leftofthedial]

14. resist

I've withdrawn from our economy, partly by choice, partly not

[InkAddict]

15. Not sure I have the skills or wardrobe necessary to pick up aluminum cans;

maybe they should outsource this discriminating job to those beyond our shores. I'm already convinced that ESL personnel are much better at English grammar, punctuation, spelling, and the big one, capitalization. Heck, I'm already a great involuntary martyr. Will I be eligible for re-training scholarships? Think I might enjoy becoming an world reknown economist since it only requires one course, What Not To Do and How to Do It.

Hi - Agent Mike.

[L. Coyote]

16. In the Sixties, the response was called "Dropping Out"

and a generation did that, in part at least.

Occupations selling items for cash were particularly overrun with "drop outs" during the cultural rebellion against the Vietnam War.

[Echo In Light]

17. Dropping out remains a credible option, but too many don't know what to rebel against. Weird, eh?

Decades of pro right wing, corporate media/instruction can help that particular result along.

[Breeze54]

24. What do you mean... 'IF' ?

:grr:

[madokie]

26. last time it happened to me I volunteered for the Navy

thinking I would stay clear of Vietnam but later had a change of heart and volunteered for 'Nam and spent 15 months there. Yep came home a whole new man I did.

[GreenPartyVoter]

29. My dad went the Navy route too. Come to think of it, he never even served on a ship.

[madokie]

30. I never seen a ship either

I went back to basic after basic training and helped to teach the new recruits then went to survival school and likewise stayed there for like 16 or so months then I went on to Cam Rahn Bay, Vietnam.

[alfredo]

27. Ignore them.

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. If? If?!