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{Politics.811.4}: David R. Kurtzman {drkmelrose} Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:20:59 EDT (19 lines)

It might be a clear and direct path toward peace.

Let the sons and daughters of the powerful get blown up, shot up,
maimed, and brain-damaged for a while, and see what happens.  Let them
come home to live in the mom-and-pop mansions, and be in the way.  Get
rid of all the phony "deferments", so that absolutely everyone is
vulnerable, equally.  (Equality of treatment does not entail identity
of treatment, NQBTW.)

If Cheney's heart is so weak that he can't stand on his feet for
longer than five minutes -- so that the Veep "debate" had to be done
sitting at a table -- then he can sit at a desk in the quartermaster
corps, sorting widgets.  Near the front.  So that his fat ass will be
up for grabs too.

richard millstone nixon got rid of the draft in favor of a "volunteer
military" precisely because when more people's butts were vulnerable
to service, more people took to the streets and their angry faces
showed up on television.

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