Politics The Draft
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AliasALIAS
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I'm definitely not pro-Bush, but I partially agree with you. I'm not ruling out the draft, yet I think we're fearing it more than we should. It would be too unpopular a decision with both Congress and the whole American people. Although more troops are needed, I doubt it'll come to the point where we'll be sending people with minimal training to foreign countries.Leslie said:
AliasHombre
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Exactly, why turn a voluteer, trained army into an involuntary army?
Employment in the selective service board is at a 3 year low btw.
Employment in the selective service board is at a 3 year low btw.
Alias_Addict47
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No, none of us are. But you can't bet that their won't be any draft, especially not on the word of a politic, and Bush at that. Politics are full of lies, how do you know Bush isn't lying there -_-AliasHombre said:
Vietnam wasn't THAT long ago! And nobody approved of the draft then. There were thousands of protests against it across the world. It is one of the main reasons the general public turned on the troops who fought in that war.
(It hasn't been the 21st century for very long. It's not like we're talking about World War One or something!!)
AliasHombre
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Hell, Kerry wants to add 40k troops to the army. Please tell me where he is going to get the money or manpower to do such a thing.
pasta_sauce385
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No one should be drafted!!
If there was a draft though, both guys and girls should be drafted. But I'm pretty sure there won't be. A draft would be political poison.
If there was a draft though, both guys and girls should be drafted. But I'm pretty sure there won't be. A draft would be political poison.
Alias_Addict47
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Kerry and Bush both can change their minds. I'm tired, I wrote a ten page essay and wrote all the damn questions the moderator asked over the VP debates. Never trust a politician as they say, Politics is lies and blah blah. It's true though, so you can't believe Kerry or Bush, voting for a president is more of who you can trust more, even if you can't trust him. btw, politicians do anything to win so they even make up stories as we all know so most politicians are liars. Who knows what will happen, if there will be a draft...because we can't trust Bush...or Kerry...it's the beauty of politics :lol: :laughbounce: g2g 2 sleep now, eyes shuting. Only 10:30 but up til 2 amand woke up at 6am *yawns* Anything I said in my post I might not have thought through so I'm shutting up now 
freakforalias
Dream on you perverted freak
AliasHombre said:
I wondered the same thing myself.... I don't see the draft ever being instituted on Bush's watch.... but how does Kerry expect to add 40,000 additional troops?... hmmmm....
Goonigoogoo
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freakforalias said:
Cause fighting the war on terror takes boots on the ground. The coalition will be in IRAQ for another 3 years at the least ... and i don't mean 1 thousand troops, i mean 75% of what is there now.
Iraq was a much greater undertaking than Afghanistan was and coalition troops are still there, but do to the terrain mostly special forces are present.
The war on terror will need more troops from the U.S., they just lowered the standards to join the armed forces to recruit more people.
If they plan on going into other rogue states then they can't do it with present miltary personnel, they will need more troops.
the_alliance
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Ophelia said:
really? i would want them NOT to be drafted. come on, would you be able to sleep at night knowing that one of the Bush twins has your back? i surely wouldn't.
Alias_Addict47
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:lol: :lol: :hide: I guess I couldn't sleep thenthe_alliance said:
Alias_Addict47
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:lol: my post on what I had said sounded really rude so I redid it and edited it last nightNatalia said::lol: :lol:
I do that all the time! I'm usually on here at around 3am my time. That means I have to go back in the morning and delete half of my posts because they are so stupid.
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I shouldn't say anything at night cause that's when I'm out of it and my posts sound like I'm very angry when I'm only grumpy from no sleep Frogboy_Lives
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freakforalias said:
Well according to no lesser source than, his own website, here's how.
Of course, earlier this year he thought high school kids would do.
Alias_Addict47
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If it wasn't for this itsy debate on whether we'd have a draft or not this place wouldn't have a topic because we've all already stated our opinions on whether or not to have it be only guys or both guys and girls.
Natalia said:
My father served 2 years in Vietnam. He was in the Signal Corps. And the way the soldiers were treated when they got back makes me sick. It's not fair to them. Yes there are certain individuals that may not be mentally fit for the job, their ethics may be mixed up, obviously we've seen this in the war in iraq, with the soldiers torturing the priosners in inhumane ways. But also that's how war is, you can't trust anyone. Vitenam and Iraq are different and similar in many ways. One big way is that the citizens of the countries in question can't be trusted. Because women and children are used as weapons against the soldiers, they simply can't trust anyone. That's why Vietnam was such a masacre, because fear overtook many of the soldiers minds. It just makes me sad, very sad.
