The female Senator from NY questions volunteer....

[007]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4372246/

[Airshark]

The citizens of NY need to get that idiot out of Congress, and right now.

[007]

Originally posted by Airshark@Feb 26 2004, 12:38 AM
The citizens of NY need to get that idiot out of Congress, and right now.

[dredbyrd]

Good article, actually.

[backstop]

Clinton also saw a likelihood that the new Iraqi government would repress women’s rights which, she said, had been expanded by Saddam Hussein.

“I have been deeply troubled by what I hear coming out of Iraq. When I was there and met with women members of the national governing council and local governing councils in Baghdad and Kirkuk they were starting to express concerns about some of the pullbacks in the rights they were given under Saddam Hussein,” she said.

“He was an equal opportunity oppressor, but on paper, women had rights. They went to school, they participated in the professions, they participated in government and in business; as long as they stayed out of his way, they had considerable freedom of movement.”

Crap...do you think if we ask nicely and apologize for everything, we can get Saddam to come back? *




*(Yes, I know that's not what she's saying.)

[lasvegasreb]

While I agree in theory with the idea of a draft, there are ways -- MUCH better ways -- that people can serve without having it be in the military.

I'd rather go to war with a guy or girl at my side who I know wants to be there, or at least wants to be there enough to have signed up on their own.

[kjoe]

Originally posted by lasvegasreb@Feb 26 2004, 01:26 AM
While I agree in theory with the idea of a draft, there are ways -- MUCH better ways -- that people can serve without having it be in the military.

I'd rather go to war with a guy or girl at my side who I know wants to be there, or at least wants to be there enough to have signed up on their own.

In Vietnam, there was a fundamental conflict between the interests of lifetime soldiers who needed to do certain things to win promotions, and draftees who needed to avoid doing certain things in order to get out alive. (I think there's a reference to this at the end of the movie "Animal House"----- Neidermeier).