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#1 2003-10-24 3:31 pm
- Troutski
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- From: Dry Rot, Texas
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Here Comes the Draft
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"The Selective Service System wants to hear from men and women in the community who might be willing to serve as members of a local draft board. "
Now just why do you think they are recruiting for this position?
I'm applying. If you are 18-22 years old, you had better be nice to me or I'll send you to Iraq.
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#2 2003-10-24 3:37 pm
- Ribtorus
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
I think it's wonderful.
As long as we good people up North don't get too many of your draft dodgers again.
It was OK in the 60's and 70'swhen they lived in tee pees on Vancouver island, but now they're all gonna be programmers and IT specialists and such. There's no way Tim Hortons will be able to keep up, and that stupid Starbucks will expand to serve them and their caffein-induced jitters.
I take it back, it's not wonderful.
I just don't think I could see myself living in a house without mirrors.
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#3 2003-10-24 3:46 pm
- Troutski
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
You can't go to Canada or Mexico anymore. As part of the Viet Nam amnesty program, there were mutual extradition treaties created.
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#4 2003-10-24 3:46 pm
- El Light Borus
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
I'm not worried. My eyes will keep me out of action. My contact prescription is -13.
I don't think we need a draft. We have troops spread out, but we sure don't need to fill up even more. Finish up with Iraq and Afghanistan and let things cool down for a bit.
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#5 2003-10-24 3:47 pm
- DaBeav
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
Selective Service needs to go bye-bye. There really is no valid need for it anymore...
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#6 2003-10-24 4:00 pm
- K.G.
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
I'm not worried. My eyes will keep me out of action. My contact prescription is -13.
I don't think we need a draft. We have troops spread out, but we sure don't need to fill up even more. Finish up with Iraq and Afghanistan and let things cool down for a bit.
No wonder you are so pro bush. You can't be drafted. Makes sense
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#7 2003-10-24 4:08 pm
- Ribtorus
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
I served, and if my country instituted some form of selective service, I'd go, since I'm on the reserve active list.
I just don't think I could see myself living in a house without mirrors.
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#8 2003-10-24 4:17 pm
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I'm too old to be drafted. Whew! I really dodged the bull...
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#9 2003-10-24 4:27 pm
- [Tycho?]
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
Once again, I am very glad I live in Canada, land of not draft, instead of the states. If they do bring back the draft (I doubt they will, that will cause some unpopularity methinks) I would be interested to see how things work out down there.
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#11 2003-10-24 7:52 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
I don't think there's any need for a draft at the moment, nor is the military set up to handle it. Also, there is the fact that it would be deeply unpopular -- so much so, I don't think a draftee army could ever be sent anywhere to fight.
On the other hand, if another 9/11-type thing (or worse) happens and the Pentagon is in dire need of some major troop strength, it might be instituted right quick.
I suspect they're kind of making a show of keeping the draft handy just in case. Perhaps it'll deter crazies who think they might be able to get away with some smurf if they think the military is bogged down in Iraq.
Didn't Jimmy Carter get people registering for the draft after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan? I seem to think he did that to "send a signal" to the reds (sure worked, didn't it?).
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#12 2003-10-24 10:09 pm
- Jaligard
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
Selective Service needs to go bye-bye. There really is no valid need for it anymore...
The Selective Service is in place in case there is a need for it.
There really isn't any need for a draft at the moment, unless G.W. decides to invade China or something.
George Bush: "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator."
George Bush: "One of the hardest parts of my job is to try to connect Iraq to the war on terror."
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#14 2003-10-24 10:23 pm
- Brad Goodman
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
It's a poor idea. The result would be a crappy military that resembles the disasterous kennedy/johnson military during their failed 'Nam adventure.
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#15 2003-10-24 10:32 pm
- Neut
- Eat the Path
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
I'm eligible. Balls.
Maybe I can say I'm gay.... 
Cross over the cell bars, find a new maze, make the maze from it's path, find the cell bars, cross over the bars, find a maze, make the maze from its path, eat the food, eat the path.
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#16 2003-10-24 10:33 pm
- Tallgeese
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
I'm eligible. Balls.
Maybe I can say I'm gay....
tsk tsk...
Taking the benefits without the risks, eh Good American?
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#17 2003-10-24 10:39 pm
- Brad Goodman
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
I'm eligible. Balls.
Maybe I can say I'm gay....
Bad idea. When clinton implemented his "don't ask, don't tell" policy, he added a provision that gay soldiers must prove that they're gay. Rumsfeld tried to remove the provision, but barney frank insisted that it remain.
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#18 2003-10-24 10:40 pm
- Neut
- Eat the Path
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
I'm eligible. Balls.
Maybe I can say I'm gay....tsk tsk...
Taking the benefits without the risks, eh Good American?
Only in theroy. 
I'd go, but only because even after watch countless movies like The Thin Red Line, and reading books like All Quiet on the Western Front and Catch-22, I'm still naieve.
Also, my brother in law went to Iraq, so I'd feel like a pansy.
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#19 2003-10-24 10:43 pm
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#20 2003-10-24 10:44 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
It'd have to be the frickin' apocalypse before Canada instituted the draft, and even then at least one or two provinces would keep out of it.
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#21 2003-10-24 10:56 pm
- Brad Goodman
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It'd have to be the frickin' apocalypse before Canada instituted the draft, and even then at least one or two provinces would keep out of it.
I agree. canadians have a proud history of being ashamed of themselves. The only way they would implement a draft is if they felt that their femininity was somehow being challenged.
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#22 2003-10-24 10:58 pm
- Tallgeese
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
So when are you signing up, skippy?
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#23 2003-10-24 11:03 pm
- ShnickyShnack
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
So when are you signing up, skippy?
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#24 2003-10-24 11:38 pm
- Ronald Reagan
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
When clinton implemented his "don't ask, don't tell" policy, he added a provision that gay soldiers must prove that they're gay.
How?
The party line for the people who support the ban is that sexual orientation is really sexual preference - a matter of choice. It's illogical for those people to ask someone to prove what their sexual orientation is. It's also illogical for them to have a ban. Logically, if sexual orientation is a myth and people are free to choose the sex of their partners, there can be no ban. There could be, instead, a reprimand process for people who "choose to act on their preference".
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#25 2003-10-24 11:48 pm
- El Light Borus
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Re: Here Comes the Draft
Right. If I got drafted, I'd go, but they wouldn't put me on the front lines. I'd be doing something in the back as my eyes suck even with correction. I'm hoping that by the time my eyes are set (around 25), the laser surgery will have advanced enough to do me some good.
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