Draft Equality

Dirtie_Frank
Dirtie_Frank Posts: 1,348
edited October 2012 in A Moving Train
I was thinking the other day, dangerous I know, why are men the only people required to register for the draft? With the amount of women in the military now I would think that if there was ever a time we would need to use the draft why not women as well?
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  • AzWicker
    AzWicker Posts: 1,162
    Sexist as it is, we don't send our women to the front.

    well usually
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  • CAVSTARR313
    CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    I think it is only fair, and yet another victory for women's rights.

    keeping our "frontline policy" in tact though..

    I hope there would never be another draft..
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  • Dirtie_Frank
    Dirtie_Frank Posts: 1,348
    People have said a draft, would lessen the length of war, or keep a war from happening because everyone kids would participate. Not just the 1% or the population that volunteers now.
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  • CAVSTARR313
    CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    Dirtie_Frank wrote:
    People have said a draft, would lessen the length of war, or keep a war from happening because everyone kids would participate. Not just the 1% or the population that volunteers now.

    I think a draft would set a civil unrest in motion that would forever change this country
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    Dirtie_Frank wrote:
    People have said a draft, would lessen the length of war, or keep a war from happening because everyone kids would participate. Not just the 1% or the population that volunteers now.
    The draft ended when I was a senior in high school, so I had a real sense that guys I knew could possibly be drafted and sent to Vietnam. Believe it or not, I've never been opposed to a draft if it were done equitably. That would mean (a) no deferments that favor people with higher incomes, such as the exemptions for college students; (b) women should be drafted as well as men; (c) there should be a community service option.

    I'm convinced that had there been a draft in place, we would not have gone to war with Iraq.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Draft equality - "Progress laced with ramifications".

    So, yes.
  • whygohome
    whygohome Posts: 2,305
    Draft Equality: Send the children of politicians and CEO to the front lines.

    Send Donald Trump's kids
  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    whygohome wrote:
    Draft Equality: Send the children of politicians and CEO to the front lines.

    Send Donald Trump's kids
    That's what I meant about no exemptions for people just because they can buy their way out of serving.
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  • whygohome
    whygohome Posts: 2,305
    Who Princess wrote:
    whygohome wrote:
    Draft Equality: Send the children of politicians and CEO to the front lines.

    Send Donald Trump's kids
    That's what I meant about no exemptions for people just because they can buy their way out of serving.

    Romney is a draft dodger, and NONE of his 5 sons are in the military.

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  • Dirtie_Frank
    Dirtie_Frank Posts: 1,348
    whygohome wrote:
    Romney is a draft dodger, and NONE of his 5 sons are in the military.

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    just like Bill Clinton.
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  • whygohome
    whygohome Posts: 2,305
    Dirtie_Frank wrote:
    whygohome wrote:
    Romney is a draft dodger, and NONE of his 5 sons are in the military.

    $$$ is GOD

    just like Bill Clinton.

    Yup. Student deferments and "favors." Though, it is not uncommon for a Rhodes Scholar to get a deferment to fulfill the obligations of study.

    The difference between Clinton and Romney is that Clinton opposed the Vietnam War. Romney supported it:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/us/po ... d=all&_r=0

    So, Romney is saying, leave us spoiled brats alone to play with our silver spoons--send the poor and the minorities to fight. Clinton said it was an unjust war and loopholed his way out of it.

    And then there's the 2004 election...........another piece of shit spoiled brat george-bush.jpg attacking another candidate who ACTUALLY FOUGHT in Vietnam. But, in 2004, if you didn't vote for Bush, you weren't a patriot.

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