Is this an essential proof of the "Chickenhawk" concept??
2006-12-23 01:02:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
They like war, as long as other peoples kids are doing the fighting for them.
2006-12-23 01:11:48 · answer #1 · answered by AD 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I don't support a draft. Not because I don't want to serve (I do, but I would never cut it), and not because I wouldn't want any of my relatives to serve, but because the LAST time we instituted a draft, we got a bunch of horrible soldiers who didn't want to serve that were stuck.
I don't agree with that. Because our military is voluntary, nearly all of our soldiers WANT to be in. There are a few exceptions, but who needs them anyway?
I don't support the war. I don't protest it either. I have a niece in the National Guard, a cousin in the Air Force (he's a Lieutenant Colonel), and my husband is US Army. My father was also in the Army (Vietnam and Korean war vet), my brother-in-law was Navy, and my sister's first husband was Army. I come from a long line of soldiers and Army spouses.
Many conservatives are against the draft for the same reason I am. We don't need more slackers in the military. We need people who WANT to be there, and the military needs to take better care of the soldiers they already have.
As a sidenote:
We (meaning my husband and I) have a friend who was just med-boarded because the military didn't want to do the surgery on his intestines that he needed.
We have another friend that has served 13 years, including a three year stint at the White House under Clinton, and one tour in Iraq, and the military is trying to kick him out. Reason? On the way out to a field problem, he was involved in an accident on the autobahn which really screwed up his back. If he has surgery, and is allowed the recovery time, he'll be fine, and will still be deployable. The military doesn't want to foot the bill for his surgery, because he wouldn't be deployable for a year. Well guess what. Our post isn't deploying for another year anyway; our guys just came back.
Another friend of ours was injured in Iraq. The military doesn't want to foot the bill for surgery.
Then we have the soldiers who join up voluntarily, and then want to get out because they can't cut it, or find out they're deploying, and suddenly become conscientious objectors. The worst part about it is that they're ALLOWED to do this.
If the military would take care of the soldiers they've got, and quit allowing these MORONS like I just mentioned (the pathetic ones who can't make it) to have their way, perhaps we wouldn't NEED a draft.
2006-12-23 01:32:42 · answer #2 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How you get that to be proof of a chickenhawk concept is beyond me. Speculation is never proof. Period.
Now, that said-we don't need a draft. I think it's hilarious that libbies are suddenly calling for one,given their bogus posture of hating war so much. Now there is something more concrete-the hypocrisy of the liberal to call for a draft wheren they are doing anti war Kumbayas in their back yards while waiting for their lattes to cool.
Our recruitment levels are at least where they should be. Libbies call for a draft so as to raise division in the nation concerning the war. A half blind man can see this trumped up argument coming from a hundred miles away.
2006-12-23 01:14:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First off sport....I am a conservative and I do support the draft however the reality is there are too many ignorant or selfish people that will not stand up to what is evil and wrong sad thing is typically Americans have to be dragged into war late in the game or after a Pearl Harbor type disaster ,WW1 we entered late in the game, mark my word one day the terrorist will do something so heinous even cowards like you will have to fight back!
2006-12-23 01:15:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure all Conservatives are not agains the draft. Just to clarify further the draft is written into the USA Patriot Act revised in 2003, it has nothing to do with the Democrats. Both parties are to be held equally responsible in any case.
2006-12-23 01:16:25 · answer #5 · answered by Sun Spot 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because our children who already are serving would have to serve and train liberal cool aid drinkers like the one who wrote this question. Also the drive-by-media would make much ado about cowards running to Canada, and that would be such a boring remake of the same old same old 60's garbage.
2006-12-23 01:09:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Because the draft was the idea of a democrat.
2006-12-23 01:10:27 · answer #7 · answered by halfbright 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I am a conservative and I am not against the draft. One does, as a country, what one has to to protect our nation.
2006-12-23 01:07:23 · answer #8 · answered by tcbtoday123 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Like Rush - all blow and no go.
They get it from their leader, Bush.
2006-12-23 01:18:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They don't want their kids getting shipped off to some foriegn land to be killed for oil.
2006-12-23 01:06:02 · answer #10 · answered by dem4six 2 · 5⤊ 3⤋