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Infinite Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-02-06 03:28 AM
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"Kerry's '72 comments mirror latest"
WASHINGTON - During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago,
John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to "the perpetuation of war crimes."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061102/ap_on_el_ge/kerry1972_army_1

(Good, that point isn't going to hurt Democrats. Democrats should rally behind that one and tie to to the female as well who took her own life out of moral disagreement about torture.)

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Ignacio Upton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-02-06 03:31 AM
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1. Gee, John Solomon is up to his old tricks again
I'm surprised that he isn't attacking Harry Reid this time.
However, don't be surprised to see the MSM try to keep this bullshit about Kerry living on past its shelf-life, because they are desperate.
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-02-06 03:35 AM
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2. Thought it was Rush for a minute there. He said that on Tuesday
that Kerry has had a distain for the troops his whole life. The poor self-hating bastard.

That's so far from the truth you'd have to pack a lunch to get to it.
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-02-06 03:36 AM
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3. What's Kerry running for anyway?
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-02-06 04:44 AM
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4. Always been hard to say a thing about the service. and
lets face it Vietnam times were really bad. That war has been eating into people in this country for just about 40 years now. Most do not recall it even right. I have to even tell my children we were never once spat at, or was their father or any one we knew. And we lived in the mist of the largest military section in the US. All through the 60's up to now. Few are ever going to say it was wrong or we did any thing wrong. Even during WW2 'things' were sort of hide if they did not prove our 'goodness'. Kerry maybe right but it is best not to ride on what he did and drag up any more about how much this war is like Vietnam. Lets stick with this mess they made and try to get out of it. Who knows why this WH likes wars so and why we have the same mess as we did 40 years ago. I frankly think it is because they all knew so little about the people in the Middle East as we knew so little about So. Asia. These places are not little USA waiting to grow. Does any one recall Billy Michell? Look what happened to him and he was right also. If you read social science you will find the the military has always been on the lower step in jobs people wished to aim for even if it is needed it sort of stays in that lower slot. That is something that is hard to face if your spend your life in it or you have a son killed. Right now it sounds like Iraq is blowing up.
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INdemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-02-06 08:01 AM
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5. The draft would be dominated by underpriviledged
Remember when the President said he wanted to be an education President?
From the No child left behind,to insuring our young men and women are able to go to college...Well guess what happen? The NCLB funding was cut and it proved to be nothing but rhetoric(ask any teacher)The Pell grant
funding has been slashed to nearly half of what it was in 2000.So I would argue that the draft would also include rich kids..WRONG..It woould mean that the underprivliledged would still be the ones getting that brown envelope while the privilledged would be dominating the college deferments..History would be repeat itself..No draft..Dont even mention it ..dont even give the politicians the idea..

With th pell grants cut,college loan funding cut,The GI bill may be the only option for some kids and yes today the volunteer army is dominated by underpriviledged
Things will change after Tuesday because I believe Democrats will increase the funding for college grants and loans
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-02-06 09:32 AM
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6. Kerry merely stated an inconvenient truth.
The the cannon fodder are composed mostly of the poor and less well educated.
He should have stated the case even more clearly than he did.
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