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Originally posted by User Name
Thanks to people like you, people like me will retain all of their body parts. If I get drafted, I'm off to a Western country that doesn't have great relations with the US. France, perhaps...
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I think it's a shame that some people don't want to pay for the benefits provided by our country. However, I'd like to remind everyone that in this great country he is free to make his decision.
If there is to be a draft, well, then I guess we re-define freedom. Then if they say he goes, he goes. Unless he runs.
That's also his choice.
Our choice is to lead by example. If our country needs men badly enough to demand a draft, I'll enlist before my ### comes up.
I can then provide an example of what a responsible citizen does for his country. If a draft dodger does not follow me, it's his loss. If he leaves, that's to our country's advantage. No one would mourn his leaving.
As to America ever needing another draft, we already have an illegal one.
George W has us involved in (and I'm not making a value judgement here...these are facts) multiple conflicts that are demanding more men than our military has. ALL branches have issued, have been issuing, orders called "Stop Loss." That means that our servicemen and women whose time is legally up, and should be going home, aren't. Becasue there is no one to replace them, they are simply not allowed to leave. This is, in effect, a draft. Many soldiers currently in Iraq should have been home 6 months to a year ago, and out of the military (having served their obligation), but they are forced to remain.
Our great country is very close to having another draft. If GW wins again, and then has nothing to lose, I don't think he'd give a flying fuck if the political fallout was bad for him.
I further think that if that ass started killing enough soldiers, in an effort to further his ends, not the country's, I'd have some tough moral/ethical/patriotic decisions to make myself.