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Skriven 2007-12-09 11:38:50 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
   Kommentar till text 7696 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
Ärende: George W. Bush
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Ross Cassell -> David Drummond wrote:

 RN>>> How about a draft-dodging ex-Pres who did nothing but bring shame
 RN>>> to the Presidency?

 DD>> Is "draft-dodging" considered a derogatory term by you?

 RC> It was back when we had a draft.

 RC> We no longer have a draft, but I understand that some of our European
 RC> friends have compulsory military service.

Well there you go - is it a mortal sin if they too dodge the service?

 DD>> Is your culture so entrenched in making war that you think all of your
 DD>> youth should learn the war making skills?

 RC> The reference to Clinton in this context is that back when he was of
 RC> draft age, there was a draft, there was the Vietnam war and while his
 RC> contemporaries were being sent off to fight in that war, he was over in
 RC> the United Kingdom on a Rhodes Scholarship. As commendable as it was to
 RC> be chosen for such a scholarship, he ended up not completing the
 RC> program. Conventional wisdom had it that he only went over to avoid
 RC> military service.

I too "dodged the draft" when I became "of age" - Yes, NZ had a draft in those
days too.

 RC> He would not have caught this political flack had he stayed over here
 RC> and been lucky enough to not have had his number called up.

 RC> His running mate, Al Gore, served in Vietnam.

Bigger fool him. If enough people refused to be cannon fodder, the war makers
would have to do their own dirty work.

 DD>> And then people wonder why you have so many school/shopping centre
 DD>> shootings...

 RC> Seems Australia has a colorful crime rate.

Hardly likely, if we had one it would be colourful.

 RC> I wonder what will I find if I search on New Zealand?

You will find an increased crime rate involving firearms over the last three
decades as the US culture/mindset further infiltrates the rest of the world. No
mass shootings yet, NZers haven't been entirely brainwashed by the US way.

 RC> Tell me, do you have the same problem we do, do your guns get up by
 RC> themselves and shoot people?

It takes people to pull the triggers - that's why Australia has taken great
strides to minimise the number of triggers available to pull.

The outlawing of assault weapons here has diminished the number of mass
shootings enormously.

Removing the tool make it more difficult to employ it.

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regards

David

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