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Topic: Should America Reinstate The Military Draft?

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Opinion #1
Debater: Wordbird775
A Draft Could Help End the War
A military draft might be a good thing for reasons other than increasing the ranks of the armed services. In my opinion, a draft would more evenly divide the burden of fighting the war amongst all social and economical classes. As is often stated, most of those currently fighting in Iraq are impoverished minorities with few other career choices. As Michael Moore noted in his documentary "Farenheit 9/11," not a single senator who voted to go to war has sent his or her child to Iraq.

Americans will not truly take this war seriously unless they are personally, directly effected by it. A draft would force people to care. Somehow war is less attractive if it's YOUR son who might be getting killed.
Opinion #2
Debater: Axismaster
A draft will fail us further
Iraq has been a complete failure, and having a draft would simply bring support for the war further down. There would be riots in the streets, and chaos. We have been without a draft for so long, that there is no way it could ever be brought back, because a vast majority of people on both sides of the aisle oppose it.

Soldiers who are drafted, will also provide us with poor fighting men. Soldiers who do not want to be there will certainly never give their all, and would stop at nothing to save themselves first over the lives of their comrades, sorry folks, but that's the way it is.

Now, we know that not a single senator who voted for the war has a child there, but even if it returned, they would find a way to exempt their children. Folks, we know what they do. At the end of the day, it would always be the commoners fighting the war while the patricians go to college, that is what happened once and it would certainly happen all over again.
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