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To: carranza2 who wrote (97361)	1/28/2005 3:26:17 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 793757

I would support a draft. I don't like it, no one likes it, but there you are. I suppose, if push came to shove, I would support a draft before I would lose a war for lack of troops. But having grudgingly said that... Our forefathers consciously prescribed tools for the use of the people to protect ourselves from a government gone astray. It seems to me that in acceding to a draft we give up something we shouldn't. There's a principle at stake here. Not enlisting is a way we the people have of giving feedback to our government. On the lighter side, instituting a draft would give this armchair wonk a lot of laughs. One of them would be the gay issue. Gay could become the new 4F...

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