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Senior Democrat Calls for Reinstatemment of Draft | by DesertRat66 | 2006-11-20 08:03:58 |
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by fitzso |
2006-11-20 11:22:47 |
You tear young men away from everything they have built up in their lives - homes, families, careers - and brand them as cowards if they refuse to go.
Then you teach them to kill, ship them halfway across the world into a war they may or may not believe in.
How are these men prepared for this mentally? They're NOT!
Look at the Vietnam vets. A lot of them were drafted, and a lot of them came back different - they came back with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. One of our REGULARS got himself a VC over there, and he was so much of a mess that he would go berserk if the toilet paper wasn't on the holder the right way. And that's a REGULAR, not a Draftee.
If that Dem had two brain cells to rub together, he'd scrap this idea. |
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Now hang on | by MatthewDBA | 2006-11-20 11:31:47 |
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Indeed, most mental disorders associated with war | by Arman X | 2006-11-20 11:35:49 |
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How about using Prevention rather than | by fitzso | 2006-11-20 12:20:05 |
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It's different | by MatthewDBA | 2006-11-20 12:33:13 |
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Si vis Pacem, para Bellum (n/t) | by DesertRat66 | 2006-11-20 12:35:49 |
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Or Pope John Paul's version | by MatthewDBA | 2006-11-20 12:38:14 |
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Sorry, but I don't buy that | by fitzso | 2006-11-20 13:40:30 |
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The "because they'll use them" | by MatthewDBA | 2006-11-20 13:46:02 |
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It's been proven to me that America would | by fitzso | 2006-11-20 14:19:05 |
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legal point there: | by subbywan | 2006-11-20 14:24:28 |
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Yes, used in an ongoing war to end it quicker. | by esbita | 2006-11-20 13:46:55 |
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Appeal to emotion; using loaded terms. | by krikkert | 2006-11-20 13:52:20 |
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What loaded terms? | by fitzso | 2006-11-20 14:26:40 |
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One big one that stood out for me was: | by subbywan | 2006-11-20 14:32:00 |
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I disagree | by fitzso | 2006-11-20 14:50:02 |
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Unfortunately, we don't know whether "some" | by subbywan | 2006-11-20 14:57:26 |
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That's sadly very true. | by fitzso | 2006-11-20 15:15:45 |
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"risking the sanity of millions"? | by krikkert | 2006-11-20 15:19:00 |
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And how well-trained is a draftee? | by fitzso | 2006-11-20 15:27:21 |
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Most of them are a mixture, | by krikkert | 2006-11-20 15:29:27 |
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CS wanna bees anyone | by robertltux | 2006-11-20 17:40:00 |
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Sorry, that makes no sense at all (n/t) | by fitzso | 2006-11-20 18:18:29 |
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DI's talk that way | by joecrouse | 2006-11-20 20:31:30 |
