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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (163771)	6/6/2005 7:52:22 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I like the all-volunteer military. As the Bushies are discovering, less and less people actually want to be in the military if they KNOW they're going to have to kill or be killed by strangers they really have no beef with for some purpose they haven't been told. If America or our "freedom" or "liberties" were REALLY at risk, I doubt this would be the case, and people would be volunteering right and left.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (163771)	6/6/2005 8:52:03 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No, personal involvement doesn't necessarily mean physical involvement. It means knowing people, having friends, having family who are directly affected by war. Otherwise, war is even more of a sanitized videogame (remember that nightshot of an Iraqi being pulverized by a helicopter) than it already is. Why do you think the Bush administration brings back the wounded and dead in the dead of night? Why? Why do you think that supporters of this war hide the realities of war and protest even the reading of names to memorialize them? Why? Do you think people, when confronted with the reality of war, will tend to not support it? Egads. What an idea for the human race.