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To: robnhood who wrote (14641)	9/24/1999 4:55:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Re: "Why of course the people don't want war.Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war... Sure enough, "people don't want war" but they do want to oppress, they want to feel superior to some other lesser mortals and, especially in countries that don't enforce compulsory draft (like the US, the UK, eg), people sometimes agree to renounce their free will altogether. Today in Europe, the trend is for so-called professional armies, that is the end of the "egalitarian" military service that used to be compulsory for every male 18-year-old. Therefore, so long as you find individuals who'd wholeheartedly jump on the military bandwagon as on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to merely travel abroad, to go sightseeing exotic shores aboard a Navy flattop, to indulge in wog-bashing, and then to swank around in full decorated regalia, you just can't claim that the plebs is misled by its deceitful leadership into yet another sneaky bloodshed --they were game!! Gus.