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2003-03-24 Thread Robert Scott Gassler
Okay, so change it to At the beginning of WWII and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, there was a draft... A fortiori, reinstituting a draft would not keep Congress from declaring war if it were suitably motivated or bamboozled. At 09:24 21/03/03 -0600, Carrol Cox wrote: Robert Scott Gassler

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: 535 members of Congress and ...

2003-03-21 Thread Robert Scott Gassler
At the beginning of boht the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, there was a draft, and members of Congress may have had draft-age sons. At the beginning of WWII and the two Gulf wars, there was no draft and members of Congress therefore did not need to worry about their own sons. It seems to have

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2003-03-21 Thread Carrol Cox
Robert Scott Gassler wrote: At the beginning of boht the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, there was a draft, and members of Congress may have had draft-age sons. At the beginning of WWII This is wrong. The draft began in 1940. Then the upper age limit was reduced, and some who had been