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To: allmendream

What does that have to do with the contempt that you feel for draftees, and which you claim is universal, and eternal?

You don’t speak for me, or General Vaught. I don’t feel it for the 93% of American soldiers who were draftees in WWII, or my fellow soldiers who were draftees during the Vietnam war.

I don’t feel contempt for our Revolutionary War draftees, your claim that it is universal and permanent, is ridiculous.

I prefer men to women and old grandmas when we fight wars.


108 posted on 02/13/2012 1:58:11 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: ansel12
It has everything to do with the draft.

Afraid to answer the questions?

I have seen the German army. There is compulsory service in Germany. The smart go elsewhere. The idiots get conscripted into the Military. Their military is pure crap and the officers have to avoid the enlisted men out of uniform of they will get beaten.

Professional soldiers have almost universally held contempt for draftees. Those who I served with who served with conscripts told of open drug use, slovenly barracks, unkept soldiers in unironed uniforms, bad discipline, bad morale, and a view of the Military as just one small step above Prison.

A Samurai had contempt for a peasant with a spear. The Samurai was a professional soldier - the peasant was a conscript.

The Knight had contempt for the spearman and archer. The Knight was a professional soldier - the spearman and archer were conscripts.

Do you believe in a Government of limited and enumerated powers?

Where do you see the power to compel military service enumerated?

Do you think compelled military service is compatible with recognition of the natural rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

109 posted on 02/13/2012 2:04:29 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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