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With 40% of soldiers in Iraq being Nat Guard, is that essentially a Draft?

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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 03:57 PM
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With 40% of soldiers in Iraq being Nat Guard, is that essentially a Draft?
No wonder that slime-faced, beady-eyed twirp was so cocky 3 years ago when he said there wouldn't be a draft. He already had it in his plans to have 40% of our fighting soldiers in Iraq be comprised of National Guardsmen. 40 FUCKING PERCENT!! That's not all that far from half of the entire amount of deployed forces over there. That's a draft in my book, especially when you consider that all the people who were already in the Guard never dreamed they'd be FORCED into fighting a phoney war for oil 6000 miles away.

Funny how in the days of Vietnam, the National Guard was considered by many of its critics to be a safe haven for draft dodgers like Georgie Boy. Not anymore, not under the AWOL Kid himself.

There shouldn't be a draft and there shouldn't be a sneaky back-door draft either. There shouldn't be a shortage of National Guardsmen here at home where they were meant to be. There shouldn't be a war and there shouldn't be Bush in the White House. None of this should be happening.
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