What would you do if you were drafted?

[Chuckiechan]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...raft&printer=1

However, it isn't likely to happen, IMO.

[jmebonner]

I'd go. I'd be down on the list, I think(?). 26, wife, kid, asthma, flat footed, etc. Of course I'd prefer the Navy...

I'd go. They'd probably laugh at me and toss me out though. Bad back, bad knees, horrible eyes, etc. Ah well. I bet basic would be fun.

[Mike]

Depends: For the Iraq War, I would probably move to Canada. I rather enjoy Toronto, Canada, anyway.

If the United States and the world was clearly in danger, that would be a bit different...

[Atomic Rooster]

I would go of course. I'm not any yellow bellied draft dodger.

[Mike]

"There's not an American ... that doesn't understand what we are engaged in today and what the prospects are for the future," Senator Chuck Hagel told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on post-occupation Iraq.

"Why shouldn't we ask all of our citizens to bear some responsibility and pay some price?" Hagel said, arguing that restoring compulsory military service would force "our citizens to understand the intensity and depth of challenges we face."

Oh? It's easy for him to say that "our" citizens should bear some responsibility and pay the price.

I am more than willing to be a draft dodger in Bush's little fiasco. If it were clear that Iraq was planning to take over the world Hitler style, that would be much different.

I also found this rather interesting:

The Nebraska Republican added that a draft, which was ended in the early 1970s, would spread the burden of military service in Iraq more equitably among various social strata.

I am sure it'd be very difficult for a rich politician or lawyer or whatever to buy their son's way out of the draft.

[ShawnD1]

If it's some BS war like Iraq, go to Canada (what I voted). If it was something real like the US was under attack or a country was a serious threat to world peace (N. Korea attacking S. Korea), I would serve.

[John Prophet]

I already volunteered 4 years of my life....if I were drafted I would obviously go.

And whether Id be right or wrong to do it, I guess Id probably spit on anyone who dodged it.

[The Real Bingo]

If I am aware of a draft beforehand, I would enlist in the Air Force, rather than be drafted by the Army. Filthy work they do; at least thats how I preceive it. However, if the draft were to be initiated tomorrow, I think I would be a bit too young anyway. I'm a bit older than 16.5.

I always liked the idea of blowing up those suckers on the ground and flying past them at almost the speed of sound, pretty much invisible at that.

[Mike]

Originally posted by The Real Bingo
However, if the draft were to be initiated tomorrow, I think I would be a bit too young anyway. I'm a bit older than 16.5.

Yeah, that's what those young German soldiers thought...