[N8 v2.0]

That's not the issue.

The issue is an ignoramus coming on here and missing the point completely, while responding to Tenchiro's post without any facts and asserting he's completely correct.

Name calling and cursing... Is there a single lib that can resist the urge to do either today?

 

[Silver]

I forget what it's like to be a Teenager and know everything...
You'll learn eventually too.
Must be nice. :eviltongu

Yeah, I started name calling and cursing...

Explaining facts to some of you guys is like trying to teach a blind man with no feet how to put on shoes.

 

[-BB-]

Ya, it would be political suicide. Dubya seems strangely invulnerable to that, unfortunately. Anyway, genocide is more his style.

It doesn't matter any more b/c he can't run again.

 

[ioscope]

Those of you residing in BC can look forward to having me for an extended sleepover when I get drafted... I'll pay rent with bike maintenance.

 

[Tenchiro]

LOL, you all are fvcking crazy!

 

[bpatterson6]

Yeah, I started name calling and cursing...

Explaining facts to some of you guys is like trying to teach a blind man with no feet how to put on shoes.

 

[Chutney]

There's a far greater chance that you will see God in your living room, but yeah, there's a "possibility"...

Judging by the religious fundamentalism in this country that isnt saying much..... oh wait, that wasnt called for

 

[JRogers]

I think I need to reassert my view here. The draft will not be enacted at visible point. If no major global conflicts arise (and, with the end of the cold war, they likely will not) then it won't happen. America is too divided on Iraq. Combat there is too limited (less than 1500 dead...not exactly like they can't sign them up as fast as they're going down). Remember Vietnam: massive protests, extremely unpopular war. How does history see the draft and Vietnam? Well, it ruined LBJ, for one. Let's put it this way: the current democratic saint, Bill Clinton, went to Canada. He became freakin president. Hell, Kerry got more criticism for if he acted heroically enough when he was in Vietnam! The current eye of history does not look kindly on the draft.

As for the validity of the draft, I don't really want to debat it. I'd probably go if called. Just consider Thoreau's words:

"Is it not possible that an individual may be right and the government wrong?"

"I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convinient hour."

 

[N8 v2.0]

Judging by the religious fundamentalism in this country that isnt saying much..... oh wait, that wasnt called for

Seeing as though there is no God nor even a god, I'd say the chances are pretty damn remote...