From: "Mark" 

That's true too, as one aspect anyway. Which is why so many Dems are pining
for reinstating the draft, although their "ooh we're gonna have a
draft" scare ploy prior to the '04 elections went over like a lead
balloon. 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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>>> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:52:40 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote:
>>>
>>>>> IIRC, the anti-war protestors of the Vietnam era
didn't show up for a
>>>>> single march and then spend the next few years
bragging about how many
>>>>> of marched and whining that they weren't listened to.
>>>>
>>>> >>>them
>>>>stayed on the mall permanently after the first protest>
>>>
>>> People protested for years, all over America.  Some of them even blew
>>> things up.
>>
>> Which goes to show you, despite the postulations 'round these parts, that
>> people are not really, in any substantial numbers, against our taking out
>> the islamo-fascists in the current conflicts. It's probably a function of
>> both this being a required war on multiple fronts, and people knowing it
>> is
>> because of free flowing information, as opposed to those in the 60s
>> eating
>> up whatever old Uncle Walter (and his two cohorts on the other two
>> networks)
>> fed them.
>>
>>
>>
>
> There was a draft back then. People are now semi-divorced from the
> conflict
>

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