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To: geode00 who wrote (262672)	4/24/2008 10:15:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 281500

No, the private contractors are much more expensive than regular soldiers. Wage or salary per person per day? Yes that would normally be the case. Wage or salary plus benefits, plus training costs, plus VA benefits, plus having to permanently keep the military larger rather than having the flexibility of having temporary contracts with outside companies... Now your claim is rather dubious. No, perpetual war is the goal of the Republican party. Nonsense. The draft can be started up in 6 months. Perhaps. And then you have to train all those new draftees, which makes it take longer. Current training slots would be a major bottleneck. Of course you could also increase the training slots, even build new bases for training if you need them, but that adds to the costs, and also takes time. In any case my objection to the draft is not the time it takes. My objections are the injustice of a draft, and the fact that highly trained (and willing) professional soldiers are more useful than draftees.

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