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If the draft were still active this nation would not be in the sad shape it's in today because Bush could not have managed to lie us into invading Iraq.A nation of 350 million shouldn't be strapped for manpower.
Like rotating soldiers in tours of duty like we do today
A nation of 350 million shouldn't be strapped for manpower.
Like rotating soldiers in tours of duty like we do today
If the draft were still active this nation would not be in the sad shape it's in today because Bush could not have managed to lie us into invading Iraq.A nation of 350 million shouldn't be strapped for manpower.
Like rotating soldiers in tours of duty like we do today
Suspending the draft was a bad mistake.
What it really boils down to is in the trenches when the shit has hit the fan. Who would you like to be at your side when the bullets are flying: someone who volunteered to be there or someone who was compelled by law to be there?
If the draft were still active this nation would not be in the sad shape it's in today because Bush could not have managed to lie us into invading Iraq.A nation of 350 million shouldn't be strapped for manpower.
Like rotating soldiers in tours of duty like we do today
Suspending the draft was a bad mistake.
A nation of 350 million shouldn't be strapped for manpower.
Like rotating soldiers in tours of duty like we do today
A nation of 350 million shouldn't be strapped for manpower.
Like rotating soldiers in tours of duty like we do today
If the draft were still active this nation would not be in the sad shape it's in today because Bush could not have managed to lie us into invading Iraq.A nation of 350 million shouldn't be strapped for manpower.
Like rotating soldiers in tours of duty like we do today
Suspending the draft was a bad mistake.
I'm still trying to figure this one out 8 years after the point was raised the first time. How does having a war with an all volunteer military allow a war but forcing people to go to war prevent one? Wouldn't that be reversed? If people were so against the war wouldn't they refrain from signing up to go?
If the draft were still active this nation would not be in the sad shape it's in today because Bush could not have managed to lie us into invading Iraq.A nation of 350 million shouldn't be strapped for manpower.
Like rotating soldiers in tours of duty like we do today
Suspending the draft was a bad mistake.
I'm still trying to figure this one out 8 years after the point was raised the first time. How does having a war with an all volunteer military allow a war but forcing people to go to war prevent one? Wouldn't that be reversed? If people were so against the war wouldn't they refrain from signing up to go?
If the draft were still active this nation would not be in the sad shape it's in today because Bush could not have managed to lie us into invading Iraq.
Suspending the draft was a bad mistake.
I'm still trying to figure this one out 8 years after the point was raised the first time. How does having a war with an all volunteer military allow a war but forcing people to go to war prevent one? Wouldn't that be reversed? If people were so against the war wouldn't they refrain from signing up to go?
Public opposition.
People are more or less OK with unneccesary wars as long as they or theirs don't have to do the fighting and dying.
If the draft were still active this nation would not be in the sad shape it's in today because Bush could not have managed to lie us into invading Iraq.
Suspending the draft was a bad mistake.
I'm still trying to figure this one out 8 years after the point was raised the first time. How does having a war with an all volunteer military allow a war but forcing people to go to war prevent one? Wouldn't that be reversed? If people were so against the war wouldn't they refrain from signing up to go?
I was in Navy boot camp in 1967. No one was drafted into the Navy, it was all volunteer (granted, by not volunteering we might have been drated in the Army, and for a while into the Marine Corp).
During basic we were indoctrinated by non-coms on the justification for the conflict in SE Asia. The program lasted about 15 minutes, the instructors where met with boos when they attempted to re-write history, and dozens and dozens of hands went up. The few called on asked questions demonstrating their lack of support for our involvement and the Domino Theory, and the threat Vietnam represented to the United States - all questions were met with huge applause.