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Originally posted by piratenews:
Obiden demands women register for draft.

McPalin demands only men register for draft.

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Originally posted by whozit:
Democrat congresman Charlie Rangle of NYC has sponcered a draft bill.

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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
Theoretically, wouldn't it be only fair and, you know, equal?

Not that I am for drafts at all, but to draft only men has always struck me as weird and sexist. On a hypothetical basis.

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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
Theoretically, wouldn't it be only fair and, you know, equal?

Not that I am for drafts at all, but to draft only men has always struck me as weird and sexist. On a hypothetical basis.

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But then all the girls between 18 - 35 will flee to Canada!

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Originally posted by piratenews:
Obiden demands women register for draft.

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There's no draft...if there is, close a window.

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Democrat congresman Charlie Rangle of NYC has sponcered a draft bill.

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Democrats want a draft. If you don't want a draft...vote Republican.

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McCain On Reinstituting A Military Draft: ‘I Don’t Disagree’
By Ali Frick (Think Progress.com) on Aug 20th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Today at a townhall meeting, an audience member praised Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for his vow to “follow bin Laden to the gates of hell.” After a long question about veterans’ care, the questioner said she believed we needed to reinstate the draft, to which McCain seemed to readily agree:

QUESTIONER: If we don’t reenact the draft, I don’t think we’ll have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell.

MCCAIN: Ma’am, let me say that I don’t disagree with anything you said.

In June, McCain said it would take an “all-out World War III” to make the draft necessary — which seems to mean he’d consider it. In July 2006, when asked to react to Newt Gingrich’s claim that “You’d have to say to yourself this is in fact World War III,” McCain said, “I do [agree] to some extent.”

Asked about the draft last September, McCain said, “I might consider it, I don’t think it’s necessary, but I might consider it if you could design a draft where everybody equally could serve.”

Considering McCain’s vow that “there’s gonna be other wars” and that we could stay in Iraq for 100 years, a draft might seem reasonable to him.

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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Senator McCain I truly hope you get the opportunity to chase Bin Laden right to the gates of hell and push him in as you stated on your forum. I do have a question though. Disable veterans, especially in this state have horrible conditions, their medical is substandard. They drive four hours one way to Albuquerque for a simple doctors appointment which is often canceled. Our VA hospital is dirty it is understaffed, it is running on maximum overload. The prescription medicines are ten years behind standard medical care we have seven hundred claims stacked up at the VA office in Albuquerque some of them are ten and seven years old waiting to be processed in the mean time these people are homeless. My son is an officer in the Air Force, and I am a vet and I was raised in a military family. I think it is a sad state of affairs when we have illegal aliens having a Medicaid card that can access specialist top physicians, the best of medical and our vets can’t even get to a doctor. These are the people that we tied yellow ribbons for and Bush patted on the back. If we don’t reenact the draft I don’t think we will have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell.

MCCAIN: Ma’am let me say that I don’t disagree with anything you said and thank you and I am grateful for your support of all of our veterans.

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Originally posted by piratenews:
Frankly, combat is no place for men, either, since "combat" is usually defined as slaughtering innocent civilians.

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Originally posted by rue:
War is no fit place for anyone - but I would not allow anyone under 25 to serve in a war zone. I would probably not allow anyone under 25 to go through basic training either. I THINK we can all agree that we'd like our children to keep their humanity intact until they're fully formed adults.

Speaking of which - I saw another homeless vet on the street yesterday. We have got to stop breaking people and throwing them away.

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Silence is consent.

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We have got to stop breaking people and throwing them away.

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Originally posted by Khyron:
I don't object to women being drafted, but I wholeheartedly object to there being a draft. Isn't it unconstitutional anyway? I thought I heard something about drafts being against the constitution, not sure if that's true or not

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US Constitution, Amendment XIII

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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"Not one dime of income taxes goes to support any federal program."
-President Ronald Reagan, right before George Bushes' CIA friend John Hinkley Jr shot him

"Federal reserve bank was not a federal agency within meaning of Act and that the court therefore lacked subject-matter jurisdiction. Appeal was taken. The Court of Appeals, Poole, Circuit Judge, held that federal reserve banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of the Act, but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations."
-United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, No. 80-5905, Lewis v. United States, 680 F.2d 1239 (1982)
www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/frcourt.html

“There is no patriotic duty to pay taxes.”
-Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service v Newman 159 F2d 848,850 (1947)

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