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Originally posted by Rudey
Uhm the people that disagree with this war would more than likely disagree with any war that the US has been in.
Also many supporters of the draft are against the war in Iraq because they think that it creates equality since then the sons of even the advocates of the war will serve.
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Your first point could be proved wrong simply by looking at all the army Veterans out there who were against this war. At least in my city they were some of the first and most vocal protesters against it. There were a lot of men and women who served proudly in WWII, Korea and even Vietnam who were against this one.
And as for the second, I know plenty of people -- granted a lot of them are pretty young and don't know all that much yet -- who were against this war and didn't have a clue about the military's composition and what issues there are with it. And I'm sure some of them wouldn't have cared if they had.
There were a lot of reasons why people were against this war, not just some generic sense of hippie liberal pacifism. There were a lot of people who would have gladly supported it if it had been carried out differently or a different/better case had been made for it. And it was, for the most part, those people, not the hippie pacifists, who were the ones warning that going to Iraq was stretch our army too thin.
And I don't think that any of us are naive enough to believe that the draft is going to create equality. Instead of who has to serve in the army in order to get money for college and who gets their Daddy to put them through Princeton, it comes down to who has to do the actual fighting and who gets to skip out on his duties in the Texas Air National Guard.