Will There Be A Draft?

[QuadsOverQuads]

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Post at least some facts, or just go away.

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Ok, let me just refresh your memory.

From my original reply:

Dick Cheney got five deferments himself

Fact.

you can always do what Rush Limbaugh did and get a medical waiver due to a "pilonidal cyst" (which, in layman's terms, is known as "a boil on the ass")

Fact.

Or, if you're really lucky, you can call your daddy the Congressman

Fact.

and have him skip you over the waiting list so you can get into the Texas Air National Guard.

Fact.

Then, you can go AWOL

Fact.

do a whole lot of cocaine

Fact.

get busted

Fact.

do some community service

Fact.

have your daddy's friends clean the record up

Fact.

have your daddy's friends get you into the oil business

Fact.

fail miserably

Fact.

have your daddy's friends get you a baseball team

Fact.

have your daddy's friends set you up to run for governor

Fact.

have your daddy's friends set you up to run for president

Fact.

have your brother and your campaign co-chair rig the Florida vote for you

Fact.

have your daddy's friends stop the vote-count and illegally install you into the oval office

Fact.

preside over the worst intelligence failure in American history (3000 dead)

FACT.

lie the nation into a war of international aggression (1500 American soldiers dead, tens of thousands of Iraqis dead)

Fact.

and then you too can be hailed by Republicans as God's Chosen Leader For The Free World.

Fact.

Then you can start drafting other people's kids to go fight and die.

(and the PR ramp-up is already in progress on this one).


q/q

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I think it's about 50/50 that there will be a draft. The military is spread pretty thin, and I'm not sure that an all-volunteer army can support Bush's neo-colonial ventures. Whether there will be a student deferment will be up to Congress. The student deferment in the earlier incarnation of the draft was widely seen as discriminatory against pooor people (what isn't?). I t would not surprise me if there is no student deferment if the draft is re-instituted.

[BCPVP]

I think one of the reasons the libs are so scared of a draft is because they might actually have to defend the country, which they'd rather leave to the Republicans. Republicans don't have that much to worry about since it's our kids in the military in the first place.

And q/q, almost all of those "facts" aren't facts at all. Their Mooronish lies. But think of them as facts if it puts a giggle in your belly.

[AngryCola]

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Republicans don't have that much to worry about since it's our kids in the military in the first place.

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How many Republican (or Democratic for that mater) senator's children are fighting in the war?

Can you tell me?

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almost all of those "facts" aren't facts at all. Their Mooronish lies.

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What's a mooron?
It must have something to do with lunar cycles.

[BCPVP]

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How many Republican (or Democratic for that mater) senator's children are fighting in the war?

Can you tell me?

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I'll do my best.
Sergeant Brooks Johnson.....son of SD-Democratic Senator Tim Johnson
The son of Republican Rep of California
Senator Joe Biden's son Beau is on active duty, but he doesn't have any control over where he's sent.
And I'll throw in John Ashcroft's son because Ashcroft is part of the Admin. His son is on active duty (and again has no control over where he's sent).
So, 3 congressmen have sons in the military. 3/535=0.56%
there's about 1.4 million in uniform so 1.4/280(U.S. pop in millions)=0.49%.
So you're more likely to be in military service as the son/daughter of a congressman than of average Joe Citizen.

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What's a mooron?

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"Mooron". Think about it. Whom are you paraphrasing by questioning how many congressmen have children in service?
Think hard; advil for headaches. Mydol for cramps.