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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-05 02:17 PM
Response to Reply #25
28. It wouldn't all be military.
As others in this thread have pointed out, a compulsory national service would include all kinds of service in infrastructure, medicine, environment and international development AS WELL AS a military.

I'm sick to death of people on this board (present company excepted, of course) who are willing to let big private money direct the course of this nation, when we should all be committed to service. The only way for people to have a stake in our country is for people to engage as citizens first, THEN as consumers.
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  -Is it Time for Compulsory Military Service? DFWdem  Aug-05-05 12:57 PM   #0 
  - No draft  Caleb   Aug-05-05 12:57 PM   #1 
  - But wouldn't it be great for PNAC to fight for PNAC?  BlueEyedSon   Aug-05-05 01:00 PM   #3 
  - Not a draft...  DFWdem   Aug-05-05 01:01 PM   #5 
     - What the difference?  Blue State Native   Aug-05-05 01:09 PM   #12 
        - The difference being....  DFWdem   Aug-05-05 01:12 PM   #16 
  - Did you miss something?  seemslikeadream   Aug-05-05 01:00 PM   # 
  - I agree 100%  DFWdem   Aug-05-05 01:06 PM   #10 
  - No way! Firstly, I will not support nor recommend my  OmmmSweetOmmm   Aug-05-05 01:00 PM   #2 
  - not sure how much it would help  wli   Aug-05-05 01:00 PM   #4 
  - Good thing I already served...  getmeouttahere   Aug-05-05 01:01 PM   #6 
  - My children will not fight for BushCo, only to have their service...  KansDem   Aug-05-05 01:15 PM   #20 
  - I like the idea of....  LynzM   Aug-05-05 01:03 PM   #7 
  - One problem with *universal* military service  kenny blankenship   Aug-05-05 01:05 PM   #8 
  - I'm sure there are many issue I haven't addressed  DFWdem   Aug-05-05 01:10 PM   #14 
  - No way. I'm not putting every 18 year old in this country under the mind  Misskittycat   Aug-05-05 01:06 PM   #9 
  - The pay would be nominal.  Ron_Green   Aug-05-05 01:35 PM   #21 
     - But not the cost!  kenny blankenship   Aug-05-05 01:51 PM   #25 
        - It wouldn't all be military.  Ron_Green   Aug-05-05 02:17 PM   #28 
  - No with this corrupt warmongering motherfucker in office  ComerPerro   Aug-05-05 01:07 PM   #11 
  - What about pacifists and conscientious objectors?  SteppingRazor   Aug-05-05 01:10 PM   #13 
  - True  DFWdem   Aug-05-05 01:36 PM   #22 
  - Congress voted on that exact idea last year  Freddie Stubbs   Aug-05-05 01:10 PM   #15 
  - I see it was very popular with them  DFWdem   Aug-05-05 01:14 PM   #18 
  - Yes it is  acmejack   Aug-05-05 01:14 PM   #17 
  - I agree with DFWdem. I barely beat the Viet Nam draft by  unrepuke   Aug-05-05 01:14 PM   #19 
  - Never  JVS   Aug-05-05 01:36 PM   #23 
  - I *will not* serve in this nation's military forces until I can do so  kgfnally   Aug-05-05 01:44 PM   #24 
  - well said kgfnally  shadowknows69   Aug-05-05 02:54 PM   #33 
  - NO! Wrong question!  sintax   Aug-05-05 01:57 PM   #26 
  - We'd have to amend the Constitution to allow for slavery again  Book Lover   Aug-05-05 02:17 PM   #27 
  - Is it time to de-militarize the US?  KG   Aug-05-05 02:21 PM   #29 
  - That gets the big Hell No.  tasteblind   Aug-05-05 02:22 PM   #30 
  - wow  brandxj   Aug-05-05 02:51 PM   #31 
     - I defend those freedoms by exercising them...  tasteblind   Aug-05-05 04:01 PM   #35 
  - erm, that'd be a no.  ulysses   Aug-05-05 02:52 PM   #32 
  - The current system would be perfect  stanwyck   Aug-05-05 03:02 PM   #34 
  - Actually, I like the the idea of compulsory service  tomg   Aug-05-05 04:43 PM   #36 
  - Slippery slope  Lannes   Aug-05-05 04:47 PM   #37 
 

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