My first point could also be proven wrong if you had some evidence or facts or anything like that showing those veterans weren't outliers. But until then there is a strong could. Hey some veterans are diabetics - so I guess that translates into Veterans are diabetics? Yeah ok thanks come again...next time say something funny...funny haha.
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Originally posted by sugar and spice
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.
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