[extropy-chat] 70% oppose resumption of military conscription

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jun 24, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

> --- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:>
>>
>> There will be draft and it will come from the current
>> administration.  Bank on it.
>>
>
> People have been saying this since before the Iraq war. Mike Badnarik
> was 'guaranteeing' during the election that Bush would implement  
> one by
> January. Didn't happen. Now the left is getting all huffed up over the
> fact that military recruiters have established a central database for
> direct marketing recruiting materials most cost-effectively, as if  
> they
> didn't do that before (wrong). The only thing that is new now is that
> the No Child Left Behind Act requires schools accepting federal aid to
> supply full student lists to recruiters, whereas before recruiters had
> to purchase lists from magazines and organizations that cater to
> teenagers.
>
> The impending draft is the biggest chicken-little story of this  
> decade.

Before 2008 there will be a draft and once again some will remember I  
said so.   Of coures I believe that before 2008 a draft will be the  
least of what we are worrying about.

- samantha

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