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Bill Moyers Essay: Restoring Accountability for Washington's Wars.
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[stewbycr]

Why don't you morons listen to what Moyers is saying instead of going off on some jihadist rant about the government. You are the gov. you bozos. Send the senators kids over there and all the smart ass policy makers of draft age and see how long it last.

[JeffreyRodriguez]

A draft is slavery. I'd kill my enslaver, not the guy my enslaver wants dead.

How's about we just end the god damned war.

[jacopman]

Rich men always send poor men off to war.........

[Licmycat]

This was posted TWO YEARS ago. I haven't seen NO citizens or CHURChES doing a dadgum THING!!! Westboro at least got out there and went crazy on the WRONG PEOPLE!!! Why didn't they do Washington and the president that way?????? PUt them in mental institution!

[hrmIwonder]

I kinda agree with Mr. Moyers. We just need to make sure that rich white kids can't get out of the draft. Let kids of haliburton and lockhead martin execs get drafted first. We might then get some reason and sanity in America. But that won't happen, the poor will get drafted first and and the rich kids will find a way out of it.

[bowenriley]

Hey, I'm a twenty one year old healthy american male. I'm lower middle class and struggle to take care of my family every day. I'm a non college graduate, I'm not attending school, and I don't have any legal dependents. I'd be drafted immediately. My choices are from that point: Prison, flee the country, or consent to kill whoever I'm told to. It's a forced, sanctioned form of modern slavery. And the threat of it has loomed over my life since the sixth grade.

And now they're calling for it.

[DonkeyofHeaven]

Bill Moyersraises the stakes in the Washington DC military-industrial-complex harvest of war proits. I agree that we should reinstate the draft with one proviso, that there should be a non-military option such as a conservation or civilian hospital corps as an option.Then we sill see who supports national service in the military or in health care or conservation with the youth of the nation voting with their bodies.

[tordurbar]

Stanley, his assumption is based on the fact that now, for the first time, our armed forces are meeting their recruiting targets. Only the economy has changed -- that's why more are enlisting. Not to diminish patriotism as a motivation. Many are doing it strictly to get a paycheck.

[StanleyKin]

He was OK until his assumptions & summarions. Where does this guy get off assuming our patriotic young men and women are serving our country because of (Fed Gov-created) unemployment and (Fed Gov-created) unaffordability of healthcare? I take EXTREME offense with his cavalier diminishment of the monumental patriotism of those serving. I served in the Marine Corps for 29 years and Ican assure you that when we lower our recruitment standards & draft, we receive sub-standard performance.

[tordurbar]

Brilliant Commentary. Time for the Unions to mount a general strike if we don't get out of Afghanistan and spend the money right here on jobs. Let's roll.

[neimpeach]

Draft is already in place and ready to go. It's called Selective Service. Who registers for Selective Service? Anyone who needs a Pell Grant. Who needs Pell Grants? Poor kids. So it will miss the rich. They'll say everyone has to register, but not enforce it too hard or it will lose political support. They'll take who's registered first. They're just poor kids anyway. Time to call your congressman and say Out of Afghanistan, because if we get stuck there, the draft is coming. 202-224-3121