One Band Moves Its Metal Out of Iraq
The douche factor is pretty high on this considering that the director founded Vice Magazine and James Hetfield gave the band a guitar, saying “That’s for keeping the faith.” That’s like Puff Daddy telling a rapper to “keep it real.”
Still, it’s a good story. Now let’s see if the band does anything now that they are “free.”
Joint Chiefs of the Armed Forces use the D-word
Draft. To paraphrase, he basically says the military is overstretched, overused, and breaking apart at the seems and if we don’t roll back the war efforts, there is no other choice but to enact the draft.
It is, at that point, that I will unquestionably pack up my things and move. Not in the “if Bush wins I’m leaving!” sense but in the “I can’t live in a country with an involuntary draft” sense.
