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{Politics.811.8}: Dan Griffith {xenophon} Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:24:17 EDT (23 lines)

When I was young and in the army I saw the military draft in action up
close.

I saw several people with good connections, and privileges of wealth
make some phone calls and change their whole army careers.

When I reported to my basic training company one boy was the son of a
senior vice president of Hughes Aircraft Corp. He was immediately
given a temporary promotion to corporal before anybody even had a
conversation with him to discover if he was a moron or not. He then
proceded to lord it over the rest of us like a major general. He was
later assigned to infantry which in those days was an immediate ticket
to Vietnam. he made a phone call and was re-assigned to the national
guard near his home.

That is only one instance.

So in my opinion a military draft will not be a vehicle to treating
all Americans equally. Good connections, and wealth will always have
their way and avoid the real operation of equality.

George Bush, and Dick (I had other priorities) Cheney, are classic
examples.

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