Re: "U.S. toll in Iraq hits 2,000"

> George Z. Bush" <georgezbush@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:TLI8f.17281$0d3.754@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Yeff wrote:
>>> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 01:58:57 GMT, Michael Wise wrote:
>>>
>>>> Or our president or anybody else in power whose own kids are too good to
>>>> make the sacrifice.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry, there's a draft?
>>
>> Of course not....but the recruiting stations are still open, and they're so
>> hungry for bodies that they're willing to take high school dropouts these
>> days. Surely, the children of the high and mighty wouldn't have any problems
>> meeting the pitifully low standards that exist these days. And yet, they
>> somehow never show up to serve their country like you and I did. Don't you
>> ever wonder why not?
>>
>> George Z.

>"Steve & Leslie Swartz" <leslieswartz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:eEK8f.17297$0d3.1708@xxxxxxxxxxx

> Recruiters have *always* been willing to take high-school dropouts, George.
>
> Ever since the DoD was pressured by the Carter administration into "providing
> opportunity for under represented classes."
>
And for the 12 years of the Reagan and Bush #41 tenures, they continued to
voluntarily honor a policy put in place for political reasons by Jimmy Carter?
If they did, then you shouldn't be finding fault with that Republican endorsed
policy, should you. Are you absolutely certain that the services' willingness
to accept high school dropouts didn't disappear when we went to an all-volunteer
armed force? I suggest you do your own homework on that subject before you hang
yourself out to dry.

George Z.


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