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That 76% were from lower income families tells you something right there. George Bush, Dick Cheney, and other current Republicans can tell you all about avoiding the draft through the National Guard or college deferments.


You're right, draftees were a minority of the total US armed forces. In the Army, though, they accounted for almost 90% of the infantry riflemen. Can anyone say front lines?  Thusly, draftees accounted for more than half of Army battlefield deaths.  Sounds to me, as if draftees were used as nothing more than cannon fodder.




 Are you ready to apply the same logic to the current administration?


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