moving to canada if obama is re-elected?

[davester]

cbelt3 wrote:
MY lottery number was.... 2.

Fortunately the war ended a few years before I was eligible for the draft,

How is that possible? There were no draft lotteries after the war ended and lotteries only applied to those becoming eligible that year.

[davester]

SDGuy wrote:
This part of the thread is veering a bit off-topic, but I find it interesting (and ironic) that the Baby Boomers got their panties in a twist over the possibility of being forced to spend a year in combat, and now that same generation is running things and seems to have no qualms over or even recognize that there are folks of the Millennial and Gen X generations who have VOLUNTARILY been at war for ten years now...

That's not entirely accurate. Many combat troops currently in the field signed up for national guard duty whose mission has historically has not included foreign deployments They have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan due to the lack of manpower available in army and air force units and forced to keep returning involuntarily through the stop-loss policy (which has also been used to force repeat combat tours by army troops. Those troops are not voluntarily in combat. Stop-loss has been referred to as the "backdoor draft".

[freeradical]

davester wrote:
[quote=SDGuy]
This part of the thread is veering a bit off-topic, but I find it interesting (and ironic) that the Baby Boomers got their panties in a twist over the possibility of being forced to spend a year in combat, and now that same generation is running things and seems to have no qualms over or even recognize that there are folks of the Millennial and Gen X generations who have VOLUNTARILY been at war for ten years now...

That's not entirely accurate. Many combat troops currently in the field signed up for national guard duty whose mission has historically has not included foreign deployments They have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan due to the lack of manpower available in army and air force units and forced to keep returning involuntarily through the stop-loss policy (which has also been used to force repeat combat tours by army troops. Those troops are not voluntarily in combat. Stop-loss has been referred to as the "backdoor draft".
The decision to use National Guard troops had nothing to do with manpower. It was a political decision that was made to increase support for the deployed troops. Communities notice when the guard deploys. We learned our lesson about this in Vietnam.

I was put on stop loss - I was active duty - when Clinton had his little Kosovo adventure...I had to carry a pager 24/7...

[decay]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_p...ingle.html

they could move to ...

Ireland

Several readers make a case for Ireland. Abortion is mostly illegal in the country. The political parties are center-right, and the country's corporate tax of 12.5 percent is extremely friendly to industry, including Microsoft and Intel. Native Irishman Marc Bruton says: "As an Irishman living in the U.S. for 12 years (who is currently horrified by McCain/Palin), I have to say there is nowhere more America-like than the country of my birth. They'd love it. … And it has some great golf courses!" The country is largely religious, and English is the second of two official languages. And they have a history of welcoming Republicans. "You can't get too hung up on the JFK connection," advises Paul Sheridan. "Reagan got as big a welcome when he visited in the '80s."

[Lux Interior]

decay wrote: and English is the second of two official languages.

Aaaaand you lost them.