Is it drafty in here?

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• 1 - Eric Olsen

  Jan 21, 2003 at 7:25 pm

  Actually, we pretty specifically do not HAVE A draft, although some wish we did. We have a volunteer military.

• 2 - Jim Carruthers

  Jan 21, 2003 at 7:39 pm

  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

  Jan 21, 2003 at 7:45 pm

  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

  Jan 21, 2003 at 8:00 pm

  Registration is not draft - buying a cemetary plot is not death.

• 5 - Jim Carruthers

  Jan 21, 2003 at 9:05 pm

  Buying a BeeGees record doesn't make you Disco Stu.
  
  

• 6 - Howard Owens

  Jan 21, 2003 at 10:18 pm

  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.

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