You ferret-face punks have been pro-war now its your turn on the frontline why do you want to dodge the Draft?
965437
okay when does the train leave?
798561
1st off less is more, I'm not sure if YOU understand what your question was,  and to quote you "Currently, there are more than enough people enlisting in the armed forces nationwide to sustain our military needs." where did you get your information? If we stay in middle of this civil war, we will not have enough to protect what we need to protect .I think you are afraid of being drafted.
49330
I used to get all fired up about this stuff too.  I understand why people care about it so much but to the day here in 2006?  I was in the military, volunteered,  proud to serve with people who were from that era and were drafted and people who have volunteered.\n\nWould you rather the man have been drafted and died in vietnam?  Same with President Bush, would you rather he had died in viet nam?\n\nThese two men did not choose to sign up to go fight in viet nam, and wether or not they dodged the draft I don't know probably,  but history put them both to a place and time when they had marvelous contributions.\n\nSo I am a vetran now,  I used to be all fired up impeach clinton draft dodger blah blah blah.\n\nNow I honestly think this is such a non issue I can't believe I've spent 45 seconds talking about it.\n\nAll the people who said he is a draft dodger did you serve? Did you volunteer? Did you go and get injured or see men die in nam?\n\nCause if not,  I really question your gripe about it.  And realistically,  if he was there with you clinton, drafted,  would it have made a difference in the outcome of any of the battles you were in or the war overall?
968977
i don't know where people keep coming up with the draft - sure charlie wrangle thinks there should be one but he's a nutjob.  there will be no draft -there doesn't need to be. thank God there are enough patriotic, strong men and women who are willing to protect and serve all American's - even those who treat them like garbage and show no respect for America.
511527
so, before i say my bit, i am a Soldier... i enlisted in december 2001 a week after i turned 17.. that was 2 years before the iraq invasion started... i hate the war... i think the freedom of the country of iraq is not worth my blood or the blood of any other American.... those SOB's don't deserve my blood... they don't deserve the money we spend over there "liberating" them and they don't deserve freedom... i enlisted in the army, i learned how to speak arabic and i work in military intelligence and i've fought in iraq, afghanistan, and africa... and i'll do it again.... its not my place to think about whether the war is good or any of that crap... i'm a Soldier, a machine... i take orders and execute them with precision and without hesitation.. it makes me sad to see how many people i graduated with just have done nothing with their lives... they work at the mall or maybe at walmart and i'm pouring my blood out because my Commander in Chief has ordered me to do it... fine... i wish i was defending MY country... but anyway, our society is a bunch of Pu$$ies now... i don't know how it will change and i can only see it getting worse in the future... even the army these days is full of pu$$ies... people always complaining about "Equal Opportunity" cuz they didn't get the position they want... or the PT test is too tough for females so they lower the standard for themm.... all BS... Toughen Up!!
571285
because we have a volunteer military, not a draft designed to punish people for their sexuality. You know there are many pinheads in this country who would call for the same based on race. The lot of you are idiots.
813580
No to the Draft. If things get rough and personal, I guarantee you that we have plenty of brave souls who will run to enlist. They will make America proud.
1099886
'fraid so. our brave american 'heros' will be slaughtered & for what? iraq was better off before we went in. saddams crimes are out of our juristiction. iraq had nothing to do with 911 nor did they have wmd. what they did have was oil that they were wanting to sell on the open market. rather than have the competition, its easier to bs the usa into stealing their oil & selling it to ourselves at inflated prices. so what if we sacrifice a few hundred thousand lives, profits are up. theyll probly reinstate the draft.
763949
It's amazing how many people believe this. Republicans have NEVER advocated a draft; they don't support it now; they didn't support it before the Invasion.\n\n_________\n\npink_angel wrote:"Republicans don't want a draft because then it means that their rich kids will have to go...now it's mostly minorities...and Republicans dont care about them."\n\nApart from the self-righteous arrogance of your response, you're factually wrong as well. Many Republicans aren't rich in the least (like family and I). The military is composed of people across cultural, class, and economic lines. (And even if they were poor, should we degrade their contribution to our national security? Perhaps they serve regardless of their poverty.)\n\nAnd you don't understand Republican arguments against minimum wage. If you did, you'd know they DO care about the poor!\n\n** "The poor are enlisting at demonstrably lower rates since 9/11. Specifically, the percentage of recruits from the poorest one-fifth of American neighborhoods declined from 18% in 1999 to 13.7% in 2005. The reverse is true for recruits from the wealthiest one-fifth of neighborhoods. They are now overrepresented, accounting for 22.8% of all recruits. "\n\nhttp://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed110406a.cfm\n\n** "Household Income of Recruits -- We found that recruits tend to come from mid­dle-class areas, with disproportionately fewer from low-income areas. Overall, the income dis­tribution of military enlistees is more similar to than different from the income distribution of the general population."\n\nhttp://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/cda05-08.cfm
793952
It didn't do us any good in Vietnam, which was an intervention in a civil war and was also a very unpopular war at home. In Iraq, the same two conditions still prevail. To reinstate the draft would only cause an escalation of this brutal and unnecessary aggression by drastically increasing troop levels and fueling anti-American sentiment. A draft is not the answer, ending American involvement in the Iraqi civil war would serve  this country far better than forcing young Americans to shed their blood in a foreign land where they are not wanted.
490754
I don't know, but I want to fight in a war when I go in to the army. I mean, come on, why else would people go? You know, besides money and training.
783353
the draft has been here this whole time.the government want people to join so they'll say anything. they just want more people dead! they dont care about the people.
527327
I guess you are making a statement that you would join a resistance underground to fight an occupying force.  Other than that, is there some point your are attempting to make.
813252
Actually, most everyone is against the draft, including the general populace, the military, the pentagon, the majority of congress, and the white house.\n\nThe idea, advocated by Rep. Rangle, is to slow Congress in going to war, by making the populace of the US as a whole have a vested interest in the soldiers. Since the draft would be random, this (in Rep. Rangle's mind) would widen the base of people concerned for the troops, thus create political pressure to not to go to war unless the US was threatened, thus slow down the Congress and the President.\n\nThe argument against the draft is advocated by the Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The draft, phased out after Vietnam, was creating a host of problems. The chief one among them was the erosion of troop morale and overall fighting effectiveness. Most people who are drafted do not want to be there, and as such, are less effective than volunteers. Thus, currently, the US Armed Forces are an all volunteer force, and a highly effective one at that. The Pentagon and Joint Chiefs have no interest in instating a draft which, in their opinion, will lower the overall readiness of US Armed Forces.
1033415
If I was a Shite in Iraq, I'd want to come to America.  No reason to stick around waiting for a so-called fellow Muslim to use me for a reason to start a civil war for a perverted fascist ideology.  But then again, maybe they want to defend their land against the real enemy.  Radical Muslims that pervert religion.\nOr maybe they like economic opportunity and religious freedom.
985328
NO! no draft... look into the draft during Vietnam... I still think that is the worst thing this country did.. took young men, straight out of high school, whose biggest problem was whether or not a certain girl liked him, to throwing him out of a plane in the middle of a jungle to run for and fight for his life, and watch his friends die in front of him, with hardly any training. It's sad.. and the US learned from it, and it will never happen again-and no democrats do not want a draft because I'm a democrat and I sure don't
139514
Those who chose to take advantage of the rights and freedoms supported by this country, its government, and its military, who then refuse to not serve after enlisting (and this does happen) or after being drafted, are about the most dishonorable people around. These people think they are entitled to all the good with none of the bad.\n\nFreedom is not "free". Freedom is earned and paid for constantly. Now while I doubt seriously that we will see a draft without some major world wide conventional war, we have things like the draft in place so that we as a country can call up people to arms to protect our way of life. Those who do not "want" to protect this country in a time of crisis (who still want all the perks) would be similar to someone who wants to earn a paycheck without actually doing the job.\n\nThose who wish to conscientiously object, should just renounce their citizenship and move to another country. Those that do not should be treated for what they are, traitors.