Time For The DRAFT??????....

[rsmith6621]

... and a sur-tax that everyone pays. Maybe if everyone has to sacrifice this war will come to an end.

[AmazingSchnitzel]

1. Forget that....

I don't want anyone with me downrange who didn't choose to be there...

[xfundy]

9. No one chose to be there fighting in WWI or WWII.

Regardless, it's never the common man who brings a nation to the brink of war, but they are the ones who get killed, while the "leaders" that led them to their deaths are congratulated and rewarded.

"The People" on both sides could work out any differences, but the leaders stand to make far too much profit to let that happen, so they manufacture lies and ridiculous claims about "the enemy" so the common man will think it's HIS problem, HIS land, crops, family, etc. being taken. But of course you know that.

[RZM]

11. Tons of people volunteered for both of those wars

There were drafts, but a lot of people signed up voluntarily. Of all of the World War II vets I've talked to, only handful were drafted.

Remember that there was a lot of patriotic fervor both in 1917 and in 1941-42.

[Bruce Wayne]

2. I only call for the draft when there's a Republican president

Just like I only tolerate deficit spending when there's a Democratic president. I won't change these preferences because I believe in consistency.

[xfundy]

10. Wow, Bruce.

Just, wow. How enlightening. Robin's waiting.

[scheming daemons]

3. The president just announced that there will be LESS troops

In Afghanistan.

Why would we need a draft?

[avaistheone1]

5. For all the scuffles and just in case things don't go as planned as they haven't in the last ten

years. You know, war without end in some form, fashion or guise.

Gotta keep the military industrial welfare complex going.

[Daniel537]

4. No way.

Americans are not trustworthy on the issue of war. Would not want my life to be in the hands of voters.

[gateley]

6. I've always thought the Israeli policy of every man and woman doing a stint in service to

the country was a good one.

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. I've always supported that idea but with a twist.

Make it voluntary, with a lifelong tax credit as reward for service.

[ZombieHorde]

7. Fuck that. Sacrifice your own children to your political opinions.

Leave my kids out of it.