Will Obama Reinstate the Draft?

medicineman said:

`Actually, it was never refrenced to a military draft, but if a draft is instated, it must include all within the age group. No more deferments for political reasons.

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ViRedd said:

And you, being the socialistic statist that you are, would relish the thought of the central government confiscating the very lives of the citizens, right Med? I mean, after all ... we are all wards, serfs and slaves of the government, right Med?

Vi

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medicineman said:

No Redd, I'm saying that a draft would be far more fair than collecting the nations poor to do our fighting. If one were to do a study of why the volunteer army has been working, one would see the separation of rich and poor staring them in the face. Because of no education, no available work, young poor people are forced by large (TO them) enlistment bonuses and promises of big paydays. What they get is an all expence paid vacation to Iraq or Afghanistan. If a senators offspring were to be subjected to the same circumstance, I'm pretty sure there would be a lot less war. It was the draft that eventually stopped the Viet Nam War, Have you forgotten so soon, Oh that's right, you were a draft dodger in those days, eh?

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TheBrutalTruth said:

I guess you didn't hear about the person that left the NFL, and a multi-million dollar/year contract to go fight in that war.

Strange, the liberal media was parading his death around like something that should happen to everyone fighting in those wars.

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medicineman said:

I guess you haven't heard he was killed by friendly fire, supposedly (We'll never know now) because he was about to expose some military slaughter of civilians, An Afghanistan Me lai massacre. Oh well, war is hell. And besides you're talking about one rich dude. I don't see your chickenshit ass volunteering, eh?

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misshestermoffitt said:

Where in Iraq are Palin and McCain's sons? Are they patrolling the streets, or sitting behind a desk deep in the green zone?

I'm going out on a limb and guessing that they aren't anywhere dangerous.

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ilkhan said:

I hope he does institute the draft LOL get all these youngsters/parents thinking about the roll government should be playing in their lives.

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max420thc said:

one of mccains sons graduated from annapolis .the other of mccains sons is ,or was a lance corporal in the marines patroling the streets of basra.ENLISTED.palins son .i am not sure where he is.but he is a army dog.a private and he WILL DO HIS DUTY to his country.

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jimthorpe215 said:

we should have done away with saddam the first time, kinda like if we let hitler go then going back to really get him,

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misshestermoffitt said:

My nephew was an MP, he stayed in one of Saddam's palaces with the marble urinals. He was there when all this shit started up for the second time.


My bro was there during Bush the firsts Iraq temper tantrum.

Anyone see a pattern here? George Bush attacks Iraq. We get out of there and W Bush attacks Iraq again. Anyone feeling a Hatfield and McCoy situation here?

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• US President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur district, Baghdad, in response to the attempted assassination of former U.S. President George Bush in Kuwait in mid-April.

• Iraq threatens to stop cooperating with UNSCOM inspectors and begins once again deploying troops near the Kuwait border. In response, the US begins to deploy troops to Kuwait. Code-named Operation Vigilant Warrior, 1st Brigade of the Fort Stewart, Georgia based 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) deployed and drew pre-positioned equipment in Kuwait.

• UNSCOM inspects an Iraqi "food laboratory". One of the inspectors, Dr. Diane Seaman, enters the building through the back door and catches several men running out with suitcases. The suitcases contained log books for the creation of illegal bacteria and chemicals. The letterhead comes from the president's office and from the Special Security Office (SSO).
• UNSCOM attempts to inspect the SSO headquarters but is blocked.

• US President Bill Clinton remarks "(Hussein's) regime threatens the safety of his people, the stability of his region, and the security of all the rest of us. Some day, some way, I guarantee you, he'll use the arsenal. Let there be no doubt, we are prepared to act." Senate Democrats also passed Resolution 71, which urged President Clinton to "take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."

• UNSCOM discovers documents, at Iraqi Air Force headquarters, showing that Iraq overstated by at least 6,000 the number of chemical bombs it told the U.N. it had used during the Iran–Iraq War. These bombs remain unaccounted for.

• The United States Congress passes the "Iraq Liberation Act", which states that the US wants to remove Saddam Hussein from office and replace the government with a democratic institution.

• Iraq ends all forms of cooperation with the UNSCOM teams and expels inspectors from the country.
• U.S. President Clinton signed into law HR 4655, the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998.

• UNSCOM withdraws all weapons inspectors from Iraq.
• Saddam Hussein's failure to provide unfettered access to UN arms inspectors led Washington and London to hit 100 Iraqi targets in four days of bombing as part of Operation Desert Fox. The US government urged UNSCOM executive chairman Richard Butler to withdraw, and "[a] few hours before the attack began, 125 UN personnel were hurriedly evacuated from Baghdad to Bahrain, including inspectors from the UN Special Commission on Iraq and the International Atomic Energy Agency."