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To: kattracks
"One way to avoid a lot more wars to come is institute the draft"

This is not, in and of itself, a good reason to institute the draft. It seems to me what they're saying is "Let's stuff the armed forces with a lot of people who don't want to be there, so our leaders will be afraid to fight just wars with their weakened army".

To give an analogy of how I see it: My wife is an Australian citizen. She says that voting is mandatory there. I would hate for that to happen here. I couldn't stand the thought of my vote being more than offset by a bunch of idiots who don't know anything about the candidates.

If I'm missing Mr. Hollings' point, please help me to understand.

11 posted on 02/09/2003 3:04:58 AM PST by TrappedInLiberalHell (Let's Iraq and Roll!)
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To: TrappedInLiberalHell
It's not just about having a weak military (full of don't wanna be there draftees), it's about creating protests in the streets by motivating teens/college students to protest against a war that will now "involve" them.

The Rats don't try to motivate this country together, they seek to divide this nation by pitting one group against another.

19 posted on 02/09/2003 4:25:33 AM PST by weegee
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