About the Troops, Blue VS Red

[FarLeftRage]

Does anyone here know what the ratio is of the Troops in Iraq?

Percentage-wise, how many are from the blue states?

How many are from the red states?

Does this matter to us or anyone?

[d_b]

1. nice

[FarLeftRage]

6. ???

Nice what???

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Your sig pic, I bet ;^)

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[d_b]

11. Correct

[intheflow]

2. I'll bet it's pretty evenly divided.

Red states give up their poor rural children to the war machine, blue states give up their poor urban children to the war machine.

[Retired AF Dem]

5. You have that right

It is always the children of the less fortunate that sacrifices their lives for the country, doesn't matter if the war is right or wrong.

[Slowhand16]

7. war.

I think a draft would be good. We need to get the burden of war off the backs of our poor and integrate the armed forces with people from all walks of life. I know that if I was drafted, seeing I am still of age, I would go. I would have several internal conflicts about war itself and if I believed in the cause. I would be very upset if I was drafted under the Bush administration.

[intheflow]

10. Even if the draft was reinstated

the wealthy and the well-connected would always get a free pass if they wanted. And they always seem to want one. See the bios of Bush and Cheney to start.

Edited to welcome you to DU.

[Slowhand16]

12. yea...

This is true I reckon. It is never gonna be "fair." I say lets move to New Zealand, anybody with me? lol...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Don't know for sure,

but I read in the Dem-Gazette, I believe, that AR has supplied a disproportionate number of Guardsmen/Reservists in relation to the population of the state.

[FarLeftRage]

9. I know that a lot

of the Vermont National Guard have been shipped over there and more are slated to go soon...

Quite a few of them have been killed too.

[coloradodem2005]

4. I love that thing.

That is cool.