Ok. So usually I try to stay away from the touchy topics on message boards, you know, politics, religon, whether the Dallas Cowboys will beat the Pittsburgh Steelers at their next game, that sort of thing. But right now I am really really really fed up with one Mr. George W. Bush.

I realize not all of you are from the states and don't get to share in his idiotic rulings, rantings and adolescent power trips. Lucky you. Don't get me wrong, i love living in America, land of the free and all that, but right now I'm just pissed.

Here's what's happened. My husband, as most of you know is overseas. He's been gone since November, and will be back by Christmas While he's been gone, the military deposits his pay directly into his account, and his LES's (leave and earning statements - paystubs) are mailed to my house. These LES tell you alot of things, just like a regular paystub. they tell you your earnings, for that pay period and the year, taxes, vacation time earned, all that, but they also tell a little more. On a military LES, they tell when you joined and your discharge date - when you can get out. Danny (husband) signed up in 2000. He signed a six year contract with the Army Reserves, which means 6 years of drills and being called up at a moments notice, then another 2 years of being on standby. He was supposed to get out Jan 20, 2006, and I was counting the days.

Notice me saying "was." Because today, I go to the mailbox, get his LES and it gives his discharge date as jan. 2008. which means he has fallen under the backdoor draft initiated by our good armed forces. That means another two years of drills and a very very good chance of another deployment. :bang: And i don't think I can handle that.

Now, i knew this was going to happen and I'm not suprised that it did. But I'm still pissed about it. I watched our fine leader on the telly during his speech the other night and apparnatly, we are seding in no more troops and bringing home no more troops. We keeping a steady course of action that isn't doing shit. We're getting shot, blown up, and basically we'r just pissing people off. All for nothing, it seems to me. And people are apparnatly starting to catch on to this because no one is joining the military...and so they're forced into breaking promises that they made to members already joined.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH HHHH!!!!!!!!!

OK. i think i feel better now.