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Old 11-25-2006, 05:19 PM   #23
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It's not about getting out of Iraq; it's about not getting into a war in the first place. The whole idea is if you have to send your own son/daughter off to fight you will be less likely to vote for war.

It's easy for those in power to start a war when their own families are sitting home safe and they can send off Joe Shmoe who is probably uneducated, impoverished, and has few other opportunities available to him.
They can't help themselves, it really is the way they think. It floors me that this line if thinking exists.

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