Reply #46: No , you are wrong

[era veteran]

The last two years of the draft were by lottery not by your ability to pay to get in schools that would make sure you passed as long as they got tuition. Before that it was certainly the poor mans war. This all volunteer Army further widens the chasm between the Army and a representation of the country's demographic. This war is doing the same thing the pre-lottery draft did. "the Steve Earl song with the lyric " they draft the white trash first around here anyway" was inspired by the pre-lottery draft. I am tired of generations of chickenfuckinghawks starting these wars so essentially the rich can acquire more and more of the riches our great country has at the expense of the poor. STOP THE WAR or make it an equal opportunity war with a draft. Then see how long it last. This will lead to a future class war in this country ( worse than the class war we are already being victimized by). BTW fuck the neocons. I was a lottery low number, in school, etc. I joined instead of being drafted. Draftees caried a stigma in my family. It was our duty to defend the country when necessary. These wars not necessary.