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Originally Posted by lotusforsale
No, that is not what he's saying, or at least not what he means.
Arguments pro or con to the contrary, barring an invasion on our shores or another world war, there is no going back on the draft. That toothpaste is out of the tube. The same can be said for the abortion issue. There simply is no going back.
What Obama IS saying is anything that will get him elected, that he will not be held accountable for later. As is typical of all politicians.
What we DO know though, is as he is telling people he will end the war in Iraq, is that people that want to hear that stop listening at that point. Listening further, you hear that he doesn't say he's bringing the troops home, he's saying he'll put them in Afghanistan. Which, by the way, is where more US troops died over the summer than in Iraq.
His policy is not to end the war, simply move it a few hundred/thousand miles.
But that's not what people are hearing.
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"But it's also important that a president speaks to military service as an obligation not just of some, but of many. ......
.... If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some."
I hope your right, but that's not what it sounds like to me.