[Regulator]

I'm all for a draft.

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

[arderkrag]

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

ALL military service should be voluntary.

[haroldeveryman]

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

1. There are about the same percentages of poor and minorities in our volunteer army as there were during the Vietnam war.

2. This is supposed to be a democracy. Compulsion is undemocratic. Voluntary legal actions (within the law) are democratic.

3. A draft would be even more unpopular now than it was 35 years ago and public reaction would be devastating to the morale of our soldiers.

[Coldwater Creek]

These people that are protecting our country are not POOR, just brave.

[McCloud-Strife]

I'm all for a draft. No reason some should get to stay behind while the brave and the poor go do the fighting.

How about the brave and the poor who will have to babysit the unwilling, degenerate, unproductive, foolish, and silly?
I for one would rather spend my time fighting the enemy. I'm no war "Czar" and that's just this 16 year (and counting) vet's opinion.

[ansel12]

Household Income of Recruits

Like their peers in 1999 and 2003, recruits in 2004 and 2005 came primarily from middle-class areas. Poor areas are proportionally underrepre­sented in the wartime years (2003–2005).