>>> pms <laflame at mindspring.com> 05/23/99 03:21PM >>>
I havn't had time to catch up with this thread yet, but the other day on
Ted(Mr. Liberal) Turner's right-wing radio station, WCNN-am, a
guy(conservative) was pushing to reinstitute the draft. He was against the
war in the Balkans, and contended that the only way you were going to get a
strong anti-war movement would be if and when the children of the affluent
and middle-class were dying. And I thought, gee, you know, he's probably
right. And I saw the Vietnam thing in a whole different light.
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BTW, I wonder who started the push for a draft back then? Could they have
considered that that would be the beginning of the end? Of course, they
couldn't have considered Henry Kissinger's career ambitions.
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Charles: Laflame, I think they had had the draft since at least WWII. The change was when they got rid of it.
Charles Brown