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To: bentway who wrote (169915)	8/26/2005 7:51:58 AM
From: steve dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Also, discontent is very slow to fester in those who "don't have skin in the game". It's partly the fact that those in the game are having to do 3 and 4 tours that feeds the sense of injustice. Saw some young republican arguing that Bush was winning the anti-war protest, had I been his opponent, first thing I would of asked him would have been why aren't you in uniform?

To: bentway who wrote (169915)	8/26/2005 2:00:49 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 281500

I don't think it really fair to compare Vietnam protests to protests NOW, in the age of the all volunteer army. The Vietnam protests ( and I was THERE ) were driven by students in danger of being drafted! Nothing energizes a young man more than the idea of their government sending them against their will to a foreign country to kill or be killed by people he doesn't even know! It's why we don't have a draft now. Coulter is getting desperate. Book sales are down and she is aging badly. She had on enough make up to sink a battleship. The good part is that Hannity shut her up.

To: bentway who wrote (169915)	8/26/2005 2:07:58 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

IMO, in the Bush push for privatizing absolutely everything, the all-volunteer military begins to sound worse and worse. Is there enough of a distinction between an all-volunteer military given promises of signing bonuses and college tuition and Blackwater mercenaries? Amazingly enough, Bush and crew give the idea of private enterprise a really REALLY bad name. Bush private enterprise is expensive, corrupt and incompetent. I think we should go back to a general draft. With random draftees, few people would still have to go into the military but they would be spread out through society. BRING BACK THE DRAFT!