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EV_Ares

(6,587 posts) Sun Mar 18, 2012, 09:41 AM Mar 2012

Just A Thought After Watching Meet The Press This Morning: [View all]

On Meet The Press this morning on the war, they said almost 200,000 brain injuries, almost 900 military suicides. This doesn't count the families destroyed from the loss of father, mother, brother or sister, the actual deaths from those killed. Will we ever, ever recover from this war? I still believe if we had not done away with the draft we would not have ever got into the Iraq/Afghanistan war. If all had been subject to the draft there would have been protests all over, how many anti-war demonstrations did you see on college campuses like during Vietnam. None. People watched this war on on TV like a show. Let someone else sacrifice, not me.

Just a thought.

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Just A Thought After Watching Meet The Press This Morning: [View all] EV_Ares Mar 2012 OP

How old are you? Do you remember Viet Nam? Do you up front shraby Mar 2012 #1

Yes, the draft 'gives them more warm bodies'.... daleanime Mar 2012 #6

I am certainly old enough to know about Vietnam. Do you know anything about WWI or II? I as others EV_Ares Mar 2012 #7

I remember to some degree WWII. My father went and shraby Mar 2012 #9

If you had a draft and, if it stipulated arthritisR_US Mar 2012 #14

+111 newfie11 Mar 2012 #16

Shraby, that is true also. However, in the other wars, the entire country sacrificied and with EV_Ares Mar 2012 #20

In the 21st century, wars should be events of the past. shraby Mar 2012 #27

You say: EV_Ares Mar 2012 #29

Does "shared sacrifice" make war Right? Nothing makes war shraby Mar 2012 #28

No, shared sacrifice does not make any war right. Absolutely not. However, what shared EV_Ares Mar 2012 #30

+1000..... arthritisR_US Mar 2012 #11

As I remember it Johnson threw in the towel in spring 1968 before there were 58K dead and missing. HereSince1628 Mar 2012 #17

Well said.(eom) Owlet Mar 2012 #26

but not everyone got drafted. ellenfl Mar 2012 #22

You are right. I don't know how many of our senators or congressmen, congresswomen served in the EV_Ares Mar 2012 #23

I agree it was the draft that made the war personal bahrbearian Mar 2012 #2

You're Fighting The Last War... KharmaTrain Mar 2012 #3

Now,the media ie,republicons are rewriting history butterfly77 Mar 2012 #4

I think there are too few people bearing the brunt of our latest foreign policy forays gratuitous Mar 2012 #5

Absolutely, the logic alone makes what you say true. EV_Ares Mar 2012 #8

I beg to differ on the number of protest marches over both wars lunatica Mar 2012 #10

Economic Draft TheMastersNemesis Mar 2012 #12

Your point about the draft and the media is good but I was astonished at the number. grantcart Mar 2012 #13

Never Advocate a Draft LeFleur1 Mar 2012 #15

I support a Draft excuse not to write Mar 2012 #18

War is a sucker's game. earthside Mar 2012 #19

There were many, many protests involving hundreds of thousands of people across the country Arugula Latte Mar 2012 #21

An all-volunteer force worked fine under Clinton and works under Obama gulliver Mar 2012 #24

Don't let anyone tell you that nixon ended the VietNam war madokie Mar 2012 #25