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Re: Can I finish my coffee?

Posted by Alba on 10/6/2005, 16:18:40, in reply to "Can I finish my coffee?"
As much as I hate the idea of a draft, we need lots more people on the ground in Iraq to get the job done, and if we can't get other countries -- besides England -- to help with that in any meaningful way, the options are limited.

I disagreed with going to Iraq, and have gotten even angrier about it as we've found out the reasons given for going in were untrue, but we're there now and we're in the middle of a war that the president insists is vital to the country. So we should start fighting it that way -- like it's vital, not some sidebar that only military members and their families are sacrificing for and the rest of the country doesn't pay that much attention to.

A whole country needs to sacrifice in war, so if that means a draft, or a reversal of Bush's tax cuts so we can pay for this conflict without borrowing from other countries and saddling generations to come with the bill, or cutting some government programs -- that's what needs to be done.

But in reality, do I think the administration will institute a draft or call for any real sacrifices from the American people? Nope. They know that if they do, the already weakened support for the Iraq war will fall like a stone and the calls to pull out immediately will become deafening.


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