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To: tcmay who wrote (173754)	3/23/2003 1:22:11 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

If an absolute national emergency exists, perhaps extenuating circumstances exist. Neither Korea nor Vietnam were national emergencies: they were wars of opportunity, wars created by politicians whose sons were not draftable. In the case of a real national emergency everybody volunteers anyway. Sortof the 911 effect. Thats what we are seeing with these iraqi divisions... how naive of our leaders not to have known this would happen, irrespective of whether SH is a tyrant. And rebuilding these nations will help our economy, What is the argument for that again? Do they intend to open the floodgates on iraqi oil and actually generate a surplus such that iraq is paying its own bills? Because from what I read it will be years before the iraqi oilfields are producing optimally.

To: tcmay who wrote (173754)	3/23/2003 3:28:35 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tim, re: I disagree completely. Drafting soldiers is involuntary servitude I was speaking pragmatically. If the citizens of this country think a war is so important, let them risk their own life, or the lives of their own sons or daughters. It's a little too easy to send "volunteers" into these situations. The patriots that have never fought a war, sitting in their living rooms, watching the war on TV... John