If you were drafted to fight in Iraq or Iran, would you go or would you burn your draft card?

Question

Let's just say I'm buying stock in Bic lighters.

You can't be afraid of the "system", free press. There are more people who believe in justice than people who believe in lies.

Hell yes I'm fomenting insurrection. See "Amendment, First".

nileslad, anybody who bought Halliburton before Bush attacked Iraq has already cleaned up, just look at their stock since 03. Or is that a coincidence to you?

Answer 1

Heaven forefend! Being in my 7th. decade of life, I'd hope that the bush-davidians would not send me one, but you never can tell just how far things have deteriorated.

If they bring back the draft or some form of universal service (a very good idea) I would apply to be a member of the draft board locally. As a life member of the American Legion, the DAV and the VFW, I'd like to have input into the system so that the Cheneys and the Limbaughs etc. would not dodge the draft so easily and so that people like those I saw drafted who should not have been (like one guy who had only one arm, one who was the sole support of his fatherless brothers and sisters) could do alternative service.

There are two very common lies that those who would never serve seem to love, and I'm not sure why (self delusion?);

That there are no atheists in foxholes, pure krapp.

That most soldiers are republicans, worse krapp.

Answer 2

Well, the Armed Forces didn't want me when I volunteered. I was on Paxil at the time.

I would really respect the President more if he was just honest with us. We are there for the oil. Removing Saddam, in my opinon was wrong, but I can see where he was going with that. If we leave now, there will be a vacuume and the hole will be filled by the terrorists. If they gain control of the oil, then our economy is screwed.

I was listening to the talk shows and radio shows this past week. Seems like the point of view of a lot of hosts is "bring our soldiers home" don't Have then run into a "meat grinder" but in the same breath there is a suggestion of instituting a draft. If our troops weren't stretched so thin all over the world, then we wouldn't need the draft.

P.S. I hate it when the political organizations get on here and inpersonate regular members to ask these questions and guage response. That's what the Rush Limbaugh radio show is all about. (Before the Invasion into Iraq the idea of invading was suggested on the show. Then now we are hearing about IRAN on the show.) Rush started being critical of the President and what happened, drug charges and embarrassment at the airport over the Viagara pills) Hmmm, interesting

Answer 3

If an invasion was happening in this country people would be joining left and right and a draft would not be needed at all .

Now do we want to station men in Antarctica to claim and protect mineral reserves and oil deposits for our future use .

I think that would be up to corporations who should hire security .

Like in Iraq . Companies that do business should be paying for the security they need to operate and not have Americans drafted or who blindly volunteer to serve to defend this nation .

Answer 4

I wouldn't just mindlessly obey, If it was another BS war for nothing, I wouldn't go, if it was necessary and the USA was being threatened in some way, I would go.

There is no way I would go to war just so another politician can look good on TV.

There comes a point when you have to ask yourself, is what we are doing here, really what the founding fathers intended?

Answer 5

I would only go if Bush's daughters, and the children of all the other elite politicians and officials, were right there fighting with me.

Answer 6

I think you should cash in the 401K, take on a second job, withdraw the kid's college fund, take out a second on the house, borrow from every friend and relative you can find and put it all in to Haliburton! If you really believe what you say you believe, you'll clean up... big time. No?

Answer 7

I'd Make sure Bush went with me!..........

And Kobe, I"m sorry I Made a mistake putting your name on that last QUESTION. We are on the Same Page. Yes!

Answer 8

Bush has done America irrevocable harm, who now will believe anything a leader says about why we should fight ?
Certainly those who should have questioned Bush (congress) failed to do so, they too are complicit.
The long term effects of what this congress and Bush have done will have long lasting ramifications, and all negative.

Answer 9

well, i've done my time in the Navy, 12 yrs, and my obligated service is up, so if they called me now, then it would definitely take a team of wild horses to drag me over there.

Answer 10

I would fight. I still believe in this greatest most free nation on the face of the earth.

Iran president paves the way for arabs' imam return
Nov 17, 2005

His call for the destruction of Israel may have grabbed headlines abroad, but it is President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's devotion to a mystical religious figure that is arousing greater interest inside Iran.

In a keynote speech on Wednesday to senior clerics, Ahmadinejad spoke of his strong belief in the second coming of Shi'ite Muslims' "hidden" 12th Imam.

According to Shi'ite Muslim teaching, Abul-Qassem Mohammad, the 12th leader whom Shi'ites consider descended from the Prophet Mohammed, disappeared in 941 but will return at the end of time to lead an era of Islamic justice.

"Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi," Ahmadinejad said in the speech to Friday Prayers leaders from across the country.

"Therefore, Iran should become a powerful, developed and model Islamic society."

"Today, we should define our economic, cultural and political policies based on the policy of Imam Mahdi's return. We should avoid copying the West's policies and systems," he added, newspapers and local news agencies reported.

Ahmadinejad refers to the return of the 12th Imam, also known as the Mahdi, in almost all his major speeches since he took office in August.