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Originally Posted by ponrauil
If you go on the congress web site and read some of the supporters of those bills, it seems they are rather opposed to war and the way the one in Iraq has been carried out.
Their main point is that with a draft that would ensure that people from all social classes would be drafted, leaders would think twice before starting a war and would go for the diplomatic issue as far as possible.
What do you think?
Ponrauil
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I think that starting a draft for any reason should be grounds for a non-commutable sentence of public hanging. Whether they do it to prevent war or protest war, whatever the heck is their reason, there is no excuse for sentencing young men and women to fight and die against their will. I don't care if it never goes through, that someone would seriously consider enslaving a portion of this country is at the very least grounds for exile or life imprisonment, much less execution. We tossed out slavery more than 100 years ago, to propose it again, for any reason at all is morally despicable.
Like one of my favorite authors, L Neil Smith, says:
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Originally Posted by L. Neil Smith
Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment's respite deserve only the end of a rope.
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Adrian