[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Phil Stracchino]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:19:07AM -0700, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
>  Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> >Charles Rangel has been puchsing a draft (Democrat >Congressman)

> He proposed a draft so that politicians (whose own kids 
> would also be elligible for military service) would be far 
> more cautious when waging war. It is always easier when 
> somebody else's kids are doing the dying to go gun ho.

Not that politicians and other figures of power and influence have ever
had any trouble getting their own kids somehow exempted from the draft
if they want to.  Cushy jobs, Ivy League colleges, assorted
deferments....


-- 
  ========== Fight Back!  It may not be just YOUR life at risk. ==========
  alaric at caerllewys.net : phil-stracchino at earthlink.net : phil at novylen.net
   phil stracchino : unix ronin : renaissance man : mystic zen biker geek
     2000 CBR929RR, 1991 VFR750F3 (foully murdered), 1986 VF500F (sold)
           Linux Now!  ...Friends don't let friends use Microsoft.