GregP wrote:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:18:52 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:
Nevertheless, if Bush is reelected, there will be a draft in
place within a year.
Helloooooooo! Reality check time again. The bills that were introduced in
Congress to reinstate the draft, were introduced by DEMOCRATS.
Well, then, that is who Bush will hide behind when
he signs one. He won't really care, will he, as long
as the blame can be pushed on someone else.
A draft makes much more sense as a democratic principal. If a military action
is defensible morally and politically, than a democratic population should be
willing to fight it in an egalitarian manner. A draft of this nature should
allow no-one the opportunity to evade it. If Joe Senator from wherever, on either
side of the aisle, wants to
vote for this, then he better dammed well be ready to send his kid off (and
those of
his corporate buddies and lawyer friends), or he is a
lying, sniveling hypocrite.
A professional army is basically a set of hired guns. It's a job they choose.
Kirby
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