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- Go get em Charlie. If Bush's daughters HAD to serve he would thought have twice about his harebrained scheme. The rich and powerful won't like this idea, the thought that their kids would have to serve alongside everyone else and select Dems will vote against the draft anyway so I see no chance of this passing. Good idea though, evreyone should do two years - even Cheney. He can practice his aim.
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- **No wonder N. Korea set off the nuke, they knew we had no backbone.**
What's wrong with **setting off a nuke**???
I know a country that actually used them and continues to use them!!!
That's the country the world should unite against!!! - Reply to this comment
- Yep, that's the solution, draft all of the Boomers' kids and grandkids. Deja vu anyone?
Go-o-o-o-od Mo-o-o-o-r-r-r-ning I-r-a-a-a-ak!!!! - Reply to this comment
- ***It seems to me that if Americans would get out as a whole and support the troops we do have, the troops moral would be high enough to finish the obligations we are currently encompassed with.***
It will never be finished, just like it has never been intended to be finished. Maybe you fail to realize why this war was started years upon years ago, and why there are many many many more plans for more wars in the coming years based upon the same strategy.
**Whether or not we should be in Iraq is not the issue. The point is we are in Iraq, so let's support our heroes till they finish the job.**
I'm not in Iraq! **WE** are not in Iraq. Others are. Saddam supposedly **KILLED** his **OWN** people, if they aren't **WE** then no one is!!!!
And as far as **heroes** go, the only hero worth idolizing is GOD! But that's just my own opinion of course, so let flesh and blood be your heroes and whatnot.
I for one think it's foolish to rely on such means to an end....!!! - Reply to this comment
- I think it's not so much the troops we don't support as the people who sent the troops into Harm's way. When I was young I protested the Vietnam war, not because the war itself was bad, but because we sat on our duffs and let our people get killed by the thousands and did squat to win.
No one likes being lied to! Most of us feel lied to about the weapons of mass destruction being there, and they've never been found. It's almost like with Clinton, I could care less about Monica Lewinski, but I did care that Clinton got on national TV and looked us in the eyes and said he'd not had *** with her. I just hate liars.
Personally I wish we weren't in Iraq, I don't find them to be as dangerous as Iran or N. Korea. It really irritates me that our country told N. Korea that they could either have nuclear weapons or have a future, and then watch N. Korea virtually spit in our faces by setting of a nuke and we did little more than place a few sanctions. That's a far cry from not having a future. Our word means squat, zip, nothing, and they know we won't back up what we say so they do this stuff only to work out better deals for themselves. It's blackmail pure and simple and we fall head first into. It's time to get people in charge of this country and keep their word, who won't say this will happen if you do this and then it doesn't happen. No wonder N. Korea set off the nuke, they knew we had no backbone. - Reply to this comment
- My children won't be going across any seas to **protect** our country. If protecting needs done, they can arm them in the National Guard to protect our country here.
If you study history closely, you'll find that these wars, and rumors of wars, are all based upon trade disputes and trading routes for the past oil producing exporting years.
These wars have been going off and on for the past several generations, since WW1 and before!
If they say they need to *thwart* out nuclear bomb making countries, well I can only say *you reap what you sow, Captain America, what makes us any different?*
I'd have to say I'd become Amish and everyone I know should as well!
Draft or no draft, my children won't go!
Consider the bible;;
**For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
Isaiah 34:2-4
you reap what you sow Captain America, you reap what you sow!!!! - Reply to this comment
- I think that all 18 year olds should drafted into Federal Service with only some of them slated for the military. The schools today are not graduating students with sufficient skills to work in today's work force. This country needs a competitive work force and does not have it. We should be second to none but we are not and have not for a long time.
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- Some of the people are not looking at the draft with their eyes open..
My husband was drafted only 4 weeks after we were married... his only objection (besides the obvious)is that boot camp was too long & rough, men should be treated as humans, not animals. Too much stricktness... Yes, they have to be taught to be rough, strong, and commited...but my husbqand said it was the fairest of ways, no one has to go back a 2nd time.... - Reply to this comment
- It seems to me that if Americans would get out as a whole and support the troops we do have, the troops moral would be high enough to finish the obligations we are currently encompassed with. Whether or not we should be in Iraq is not the issue. The point is we are in Iraq, so let's support our heroes till they finish the job. Then let's bring them home. As far as the draft goes, put out a call for fighting men. If enough Americans don't answer the call, then institute the draft and let's fight for the freedom that we all take for granted. I for one would answer the call because I am proud to be an American!
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- Draft ?.. No way, fight and die for my country yes, die and kill young and old for there country ?. no!!..There are way too many issues in my own country that are needed before we give all our money and resourses to another county who would not repay or come to our defense with arms. So as many screw-ups the administration keeps pulling,you think anyone in there right mind, and common sense will trust them with promises of free schoolinng etc after a 2 yr term,.. NOT !!!.
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