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To: Katelew who wrote (218513)2/14/2007 6:34:40 PM
From: michael97123  Respond to of 281500
 
"I'm not the first person to point out the folly of waging war and cutting taxes at the same time."

Its ingenious actually. Add no draft to the equation and the executive branch can do pretty much as they please. LBJ tried it but he had the draft which is what really did him in. If there was a draft today, our troops would be home already.