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1. Hell no! If it's an invasion and this country actually needs to be defended, I might volunteer (though I would probably be more useful in an administrative capacity. Let's face it, I can't run for shit. Never could.) but, with the possible exception of WWII, the draft is used to provide bodies to unjust and ill considered wars.
2. They paid for your college, yet you begrudge them a couple of years of service? Of course it's fair. That's what reserves are, the troops you use when your standing army is fully comitted. Of course, it's going to cause recruitment problems down the road, and might lead to an intelligent president having to make some tough choices about what's really important enough to risk lives on. Or an unintelligent presidet reinstating the draft.
3. Well, that depends. Shrub wins in 2004, look for the draft by 2006. Someone with more than a teaspon of grey matter wins, then it'll never happen.
My buddy the colonel's wife warned me about this. This is not just your standard fill up the selective service boards. This is gearing up. Shrub doesn't know his ass from his elbow, but Dick knows they're overextended.
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