You guys have a draft? Y'mean just like Iraq?
Whoa, that's fucked up, dude.
"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Is it drafty in here?
You guys have a draft? Y'mean just like Iraq?
Whoa, that's fucked up, dude.
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1 - Eric Olsen
Actually, we pretty specifically do not HAVE A draft, although some wish we did. We have a volunteer military.
2 - Jim Carruthers
Well, if you have to register to be inducted into the military when your ass turns 18, sounds like a draft to me. Whether or not they use your ass like Funkadelic, sounds kind of imaterial.
3 - Jim Carruthers
Also, this is because they interviewed a guy on As It Happens (CBC Radio) about how he was sueing because his son had to register for the draft, but his daughter didn't. Yes, he's a lawyer. So yes, you have a draft, and if you have a sprog with a dangle, he has to register for it.
4 - Eric Olsen
Registration is not draft - buying a cemetary plot is not death.
5 - Jim Carruthers
Buying a BeeGees record doesn't make you Disco Stu.
6 - Howard Owens
As others have pointed out, registering is not a draft. I'm old enough to remember the draft ... registering is certianly the draft.
And there won't be a draft.
Some 4 million people turn 18 years each year ... there are only 1.4 million people in the military ... enough people volunteer every year that we certainly don't need a draft ... and given the nature of modern warfare, I wouldn't expect us to need bodies just to send to a meat grinder like in wars past. If a war gets that bad, we'll have more to worry about than a draft.