This time we need a DRAFT and a WAR SURTAX

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7. Like you, I served my country for

Six years in the US Navy. And I protested every week for years in the sixties and seventies against that other immoral war that you served in. Were you drafted or did you go willingly, buying the government speak about bringing democracy to an illiterate, impoverished country and containing communism.? Have you noticed how the country of Vietnam ended up. It's communist and we're doing business with it.

You fail to see the point of this idea. If the hawks like McCain, et al, want to take this country into Iraq, again, they know that the people (you and me and countless others) will not tolerate a war where only the poor, felons, minorities are recruited and sent to die. By demanding a draft, our "leaders" will not be as willing to take the country to war. They saw what happened when draftees were bring brought home in body bags from Viet Nam.

And the idea of a Surtax is just as unappealing to everyone especially to those that could afford it!

We have to remember what General Smedley Butler famously said...."War is a Racket"

I am Peace. Period.