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To: Road Walker who wrote (219328)	2/21/2005 8:50:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573682

Even in Vietnam with up to 5 times as many people in country and an army that might have been twice as big we didn't draft most draft age men. Last time being drafted was almost certain was WWII. Bull, you were not there. If you were draft age, and you didn't have a deferment during the latter years of Vietnam, you got drafted, period. The two statements are not contradictory. My statement is true and yours is at least close to true. The important point of your statement is "and you didn't have a deferment". A lot of deferments were given out during the Vietnam war. You can say, assuming a draft is implemented, that your chances would be low. But you don't know the future... Iran, Syria... Even if we tried to take on both our military would probably be smaller than the military at its Vietnam era peak while out population is bigger. I personally don't think we will massively invade either. If we doubled the army, and made up the entire difference with new draftees than we would still only be drafting a relatively small % of the non-disabled draft age male population. And we have had a bigger army without a draft. The army, even with the small recent increase, is noticeably smaller than it was in the 80s. Tim