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Go here and remember why Dr. King was a great man, a great American, and an example for all of us. Oh, that we had him now, when we need him so much. But we can remember, and be comforted with the thought that people who loved King stopped the Vietnam War.<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm">www.americanrhetoric.com/...ilence.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=sunny@rigorousintuition>sunny</A> at: 1/16/06 11:57 am<br></i>

Everyone refers to the public's disenchantment with that war as the cause of our getting out of Nam. But I suspect we would have been in there a few more years than we were, regardless of the lack of public support. The key, in my view, was the change in the draft, when we moved to the "lottery" system towards the end of our involvement there, which suddenly threw the sons of the of the big shots into the draft. Yikes, we couldn't get out fast enough. That said, the peace movement DID get that lottery into law. <br><br>Since then, the powers that drive us into "wars" have found a way around another lottery draft for their corporatocracy causes by means of the "volunteer" military. Without the presence of our American aristocracy's children on the front lines, there will be no urgency to get out of this one either. I say it is time for a Constitutional amendment for a special draft that always puts kids like the Bush twins in the military and on the front lines, patrolling the streets of all the new Baghdad's, in numbers in proportion to the numbers of kids from the other classes. Then we will know how important the conflict is.<br><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Let the gulled fool the toils of war pursue,<br><br>Where bleed the many to enrich the few. </em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>English poet, William Shenstone (1714 - 1763) <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=chiggerbit@rigorousintuition>chiggerbit</A> at: 1/16/06 1:50 pm<br></i>