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fleur-de-lisa

(14,624 posts) Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:29 AM Jan 2019

"Americans in the military can be turned away by a guy who faked bone spurs to dodge the draft"

Caroline Orr @RVAwonk 9:03 AM - Jan 22, 2019

With today's Supreme Court decision, Americans who volunteer to serve in the military can be turned away by a guy who faked bone spurs to dodge the draft.

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"Americans in the military can be turned away by a guy who faked bone spurs to dodge the draft" (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Jan 2019 OP

I'm old enough to remember when the draft was evil StrangeDaysAhead Jan 2019 #1

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1. I'm old enough to remember when the draft was evil

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Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:47 AM

Jan 2019

And was the fuel for most of the protest movement of the1960's.

HELL NO, WE WON'T GO!

HEY HEY LBJ!
HOW MANY KIDS DID YOU KILL TODAY?

It was never so much of an anti-war movement as it was an anti-involuntary servitude movement.

Frankly, abolishing the draft was a mistake. With no skin in the game today's generations don't seem to give much of a fuck about perpetual war.
And the powers that be use an economic draft to feed their meat grinder.

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