I think the draft is a great Idea. It caused the Viet Nam war to stop. With a draft, college kids will be more inclined to be activists against war. If all the people have to do civic duty, there will be much more concern about wars than if only the poor fight our wars. They have to eliminate rich kid draft deferrals though. The Kids now fighting in our volunteer military are the ones for the most part that are uneducated and couldn't find jobs in their respective communities, there fore, even with a war going on, they joined for the signing bonus, (The first time any of them ever had more than a couple a hundred bucks in their pockets) and a chance to make a few bucks, get out of their boring life, and come home a hero. I doubt many thought they'd be coming home in a box.
I dont! I dont want to fight and die for a cause I dont believe in! Be all you can be once right?
Don't let Med Man get you excited...he never thinks things through.
out.
he can't even change his own mind 
Here's the deal. I am a Viet Nam Vet and I know all there is to know about Monsanto and agent orange. Fortunately, I was never exposed. My contention about the draft is just this. Everyone should have to go, not just the poor and uneducated. You better believe if all those senators sons and daughters were forced to go to Iraq, that war would have either never been started or been over long ago. In past drafts, all bigshots got deferments for their offspring, in future drafts, that should not be allowed. If it is allowed then there should not be a draft. The onus on the draftees would be to stop the frikin war and if the leaders offspring were the draftees, that onus would be a heavy hammer in stopping the madness. See where I'm going with this? As for Anything from Monsanto, after agent orange, I'm highly suspicious. I saw a program where in India they are forcing the farmers to buy these seeds and they are failing badly. They have to buy seeds every crop instead of using the ready available seeds from the crops, as those seeds are now unusable. Pretty slick sell them seeds that make crop seeds unusable so they have to buy seed every year. Many farmers are going out of business and this is contributing to world famine. There is a huge battle going on in India over these monsanto seeds.
well med man..
I am deeply offended by this statement im a veteran of iraq and afghanistan and well educated. I could have done anything i wanted. Most people who joined when i did were their because we truly believed Iraq was funding terrorist operations but soon found out it was all bullshit. I noticed the stereotype of marines being dumb was so far off base it wasnt even funny. A lot of infantry marines i served with left college to fight. You have to be a high school graduate to join any branch of the service now i bet the percentage of post high school educated military is higher than that on this website. Plus if you wanna get promoted in the military off duty education is the fastest way.
what about the prince of whales? he served in afghanistan. I also think you should have to fight in a war to have an opinion on one.
well I personally am not for the draft what so ever.. medman made a point which seemed logical to me...
isnt that where the war started? we just moved to iraq for the oil! and to break to iraq people..