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Re: Should We Bring Back The Draft? A Genuine Question.
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I should have clarified, by the way, that what I am thinking about is a real everyone-is-equal draft - no deferments for college students, for parents, for women. And possibly the draft could be extended to the Reserves, in some manner.
The key for me would be your statement above. No deferments for ANYONE! Everyone goes, period!

Feel that it would be a good thing.

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This is not an ideal world and we need to come to grips with terrorism today,not in 10 years with liberal platitudes of "what if"---- Close the borders and send the mullahs home!
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So today, do we have rich young Americans partying it up in Miami and New York while waiting for ordinary American soldiers to fight their war?
Well, where exactly are the Bush twinz?

Imagine the mayhem if GWB had another 200k soldiers to play with?

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