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To: TimF who wrote (220155)	2/22/2005 7:11:05 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573902

re: 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. Deferments were not easy to come by during Vietnam, unless you had VERY strong political connections, or could slide your way up the waiting list for the National Guard. Why do you think 1000's went to Canada? It wasn't for the weather, they had no other choice. re: 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. I'm not going to argue scenarios with you. Vietnam was on for 10 years... lot's of things happen in 10 years. The public psyche changes, as more and more people come back crippled, physically and mentally, or don't come back at all. If Iraq is the first battle of a longer war (as the neo's insist) there will certainly be a draft... if we can't lower out troop levels in Iraq over the next 4 years, even without another conflict, then there will probably be a draft. And it will affect everyone, regardless of if you are called up. John