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1 posted on 08/10/2007 3:52:17 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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Just build more robots & drones.


2 posted on 08/10/2007 3:53:14 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore...)
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Oh, oh....they'll be pouring out of the AynRandfantasyworld to condemn the 'slave army's!!!'. Not that I think the draft will be reinstated.

Wonder if the good LTG wants to draft the girls too (and no, I wouldn't support that).

3 posted on 08/10/2007 3:55:18 PM PDT by MSF BU
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Why, as long as we are meeting our recruiting goals? And, we are.
4 posted on 08/10/2007 3:55:42 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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What on earth is a “war czar” and where do I sign up?


5 posted on 08/10/2007 3:55:44 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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I'm all for a draft.

No reason some should get to stay behind while the brave and the poor go do the fighting.

6 posted on 08/10/2007 3:59:19 PM PDT by Regulator
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Great, just what we need, people beating war drums for a draft.


7 posted on 08/10/2007 3:59:28 PM PDT by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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Someone should “ frag” his ass ! Opps-I’m sorry , I thought he was talking about Vietnam !


8 posted on 08/10/2007 3:59:33 PM PDT by Renegade
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Absolutely NOT - we don’t need a military full of people that don’t want to be there. We want a military full of people that have voluntarily joined and are willing to fight for their country and for the freedom of its’ inhabitants.


10 posted on 08/10/2007 4:00:14 PM PDT by meyer (It's the entitlements, stupid!)
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Ahhhh - NO!

1. A draft would have to include both males and females. Gays would have to be included or everybody who didn’t want to be drafted would just say they were gay.

2. The left wants a draft so bad they can just about taste it. They live for the exciting days of the 60’s. Draft riots, burning draft cards, chanting students on every college campus, nightly news coverage of police beating back rioters. Oh yeah, the left would love to bring back the draft.

I have nothing against the many draftees who would serve honorably.

I have everything against the rotten apples who would consume their leaders time with BS.

12 posted on 08/10/2007 4:01:09 PM PDT by PeteB570 (Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
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I oppose a draft for the usual reasons. But it would almost be worth it to see the punk Lefties come face to face with reality. A decision they would have to make with real consequences. So sweet to see them hauled off to prison.

13 posted on 08/10/2007 4:03:28 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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A draft is not going to happen.

First, you would have to solve the problem of who gets drafted, and by that I mean do you draft females, students, people with children, people with minor justice system problems, people with low IQ’s (what we used to call “Cat 2, Cat 3” etc. There are pro and con positions on all those groups/situations and this is not 1969, so the same rules would not apply.

Secondly, even if a draft happened Saturday morning, the facilities and the support/training structure no longer exist to any large extent. It would take months, even in the face of a national emergency. It is not good to contemplate the time it would take to train troops. Registration for 18 year-old males may make some people feel better, but it means largely nothing.

On a personal note, having served, I would not want to serve with anyone who was conscripted.

16 posted on 08/10/2007 4:09:21 PM PDT by alarm rider (Why should I not vote my conscience?)
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How many times I gotta say it? The Reagan era buildup proved that we can a military twice the size of today’s without a draft. You’d think these guys with stars on their shoulders would be aware of this.


17 posted on 08/10/2007 4:10:16 PM PDT by squidly
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Fine, consider it, carefully. In most cases, it should be dismissed. In some limited cases, you could make an argument for it.


18 posted on 08/10/2007 4:10:41 PM PDT by Paradox (Politics: The art of convicing the populace that your delusions are superior to others.)
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“Military draft should be considered”

I agree, but it’s not going to happen.


19 posted on 08/10/2007 4:11:14 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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“US WAR CZAR”

what the heck?

These titles are getting more strange by the year.


20 posted on 08/10/2007 4:12:28 PM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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No it shouldn’t. We do not need a draft. The army already has enough problems with young recruits thinking the US Army is a social welfare program.


31 posted on 08/10/2007 4:30:52 PM PDT by SAMS ("I may look harmless, but I raised a U.S. MARINE!" Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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My son is in charge of the DI's at the MCRD in San Diego. He said that 5% to 7% of the volunteers are physically unfit to the point that they have to let them go.

That said, a draft would probably have at least 25% physically unfit. Too many DUers sit in mommy's basement eating pizza.

36 posted on 08/10/2007 4:32:36 PM PDT by skimask (The Democratic mantra.."Appeasement works. I'd rather live my life on my knees than die standing up)
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I don’t know much of this Lutte, but to me, anybody giving interviews to NPR is suspect.. and then to knowingly float the draft idea is just giving the ravenous left more fodder to spin. It’s like Newt calling the war “phony” even if he supposedly had some other obscure meaning in mind.. ripe for misquoting and using against us.
38 posted on 08/10/2007 4:33:08 PM PDT by Track9
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Before we commit more young people to the war effort in Iraq, we need to rid the government of the people who see the military as a huge social engineering laboratory.

Having posted that, if anything else happens we will not have a choice but draft our young. God help us! Our government has never been more elitist or corrupt than it is now.


42 posted on 08/10/2007 4:34:12 PM PDT by perseid 67
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Shouldn’t need a draft. Boys should become men and understand what is at stake here...


61 posted on 08/10/2007 4:59:15 PM PDT by halfright (How come you never see any Suicide Mullahs?)
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