"Michael McKelvy" wrote in message ink.net...
"STOP BUSH NOW" wrote in message
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"There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S
89 and HR 163) which will time the program's initiation so the draft
can begin at early as Spring 2005 -- just after the 2004 presidential
election. The administration is quietly trying to get these bills
passed now, while the public's attention is on the elections, so our
action on this is needed immediately."

"Even those voters who currently support US actions abroad may still
object to this move, knowing their own children or grandchildren will
not have a say about whether to fight. Not that it should make a
difference, but this plan, among other things, eliminates higher
education as a
shelter and includes women in the draft."


Attention ****ing Moron: The only people trying to reinstate the draft are
the DEMOCRATS!

Yeah who needs the draft when we've got Hispanics, Black People, and
poor rednecks from impoverished areas to do the fighting for us. I
mean that leaves the messy details of dying, getting limbs blown off,
etc. to those people and the rest of us that are not in those
socio-economic groups don't have to worry about it.

That way I get to watch the war (uhhh, excuse me, it's not a war, the
hostilities are over, I forgot) on TV instead of actually having to
participate.

Analogeezer

Analogeezer wrote:

Yeah who needs the draft when we've got Hispanics, Black People, and
poor rednecks from impoverished areas to do the fighting for us. I
mean that leaves the messy details of dying, getting limbs blown off,
etc. to those people and the rest of us that are not in those
socio-economic groups don't have to worry about it.

That's sort of why I support a draft: it results in a military that is
much more diverse and made up of people from a much wider variety of
different backgrounds. I think this is a good thing during peacetime
as well as wartime. (I do think, though, that you should be able to
opt for non-military service, however.)

The thing is, though, a substantial part of our military is being supported
or run by contractors, and as such you can't argue that the poor are the
only people on the front lines any longer. This was the case in Vietnam, too,
though to a much lesser degree than we are seeing now. In Vietnam many of
the technical positions were held by contractors because the rotation rate
of soldiers was high enough that it was impossible to keep trained staff
in highly skilled technical positions.

That way I get to watch the war (uhhh, excuse me, it's not a war, the
hostilities are over, I forgot) on TV instead of actually having to
participate.

The government contractor for whom I do some work has recently offered me
a truly outrageous amount of money to go to the gulf and do radio work.
If you can fix a PRC-25, you're probably in. I turned it down since I got
shot at enough when I was a kid, but there are plenty of positions open for
skilled technicians and they are paying well.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Analogeezer wrote:

Yeah who needs the draft when we've got Hispanics, Black People, and
poor rednecks from impoverished areas to do the fighting for us. I
mean that leaves the messy details of dying, getting limbs blown off,
etc. to those people and the rest of us that are not in those
socio-economic groups don't have to worry about it.

That's sort of why I support a draft: it results in a military that is
much more diverse and made up of people from a much wider variety of
different backgrounds. I think this is a good thing during peacetime
as well as wartime. (I do think, though, that you should be able to
opt for non-military service, however.)

The thing is, though, a substantial part of our military is being supported
or run by contractors, and as such you can't argue that the poor are the
only people on the front lines any longer. This was the case in Vietnam, too,
though to a much lesser degree than we are seeing now. In Vietnam many of
the technical positions were held by contractors because the rotation rate
of soldiers was high enough that it was impossible to keep trained staff
in highly skilled technical positions.

That way I get to watch the war (uhhh, excuse me, it's not a war, the
hostilities are over, I forgot) on TV instead of actually having to
participate.

The government contractor for whom I do some work has recently offered me
a truly outrageous amount of money to go to the gulf and do radio work.
If you can fix a PRC-25, you're probably in. I turned it down since I got
shot at enough when I was a kid, but there are plenty of positions open for
skilled technicians and they are paying well.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Analogeezer wrote:

Yeah who needs the draft when we've got Hispanics, Black People, and
poor rednecks from impoverished areas to do the fighting for us. I
mean that leaves the messy details of dying, getting limbs blown off,
etc. to those people and the rest of us that are not in those
socio-economic groups don't have to worry about it.

That's sort of why I support a draft: it results in a military that is
much more diverse and made up of people from a much wider variety of
different backgrounds. I think this is a good thing during peacetime
as well as wartime. (I do think, though, that you should be able to
opt for non-military service, however.)

The thing is, though, a substantial part of our military is being supported
or run by contractors, and as such you can't argue that the poor are the
only people on the front lines any longer. This was the case in Vietnam, too,
though to a much lesser degree than we are seeing now. In Vietnam many of
the technical positions were held by contractors because the rotation rate
of soldiers was high enough that it was impossible to keep trained staff
in highly skilled technical positions.

That way I get to watch the war (uhhh, excuse me, it's not a war, the
hostilities are over, I forgot) on TV instead of actually having to
participate.

The government contractor for whom I do some work has recently offered me
a truly outrageous amount of money to go to the gulf and do radio work.
If you can fix a PRC-25, you're probably in. I turned it down since I got
shot at enough when I was a kid, but there are plenty of positions open for
skilled technicians and they are paying well.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."