[meenie]

While everybody is beating the drums on Kerry, I can also remember Rumsfeld stating at one of his press conferences that draftees were inferior to regular army and we didn't want them. A hell of a lot of draftees made the supreme sacrifice in WW II and Korea. In fact, in both wars, the draft was used as a means to even out the number of incoming trainees and enlistment was discouraged except for the marines and navy.

[Britton J Wingfield]

I agree that a volunteer military is the way to go. I know the guys in my unit are there because they want to be, and that counts for a lot.

Plenty of draftees have been outstanding soldiers, but that doesn't make it the right solution for today's military, or acceptable to a free society.