Listen to Rumsfeld and gag!

"If you think back to when we had the draft, people were brought in; they were paid some fraction of what they could make in the civilian manpower market because they were without choices. Big categories were exempted - people that were in college, people that were teaching, people that were married. It varied from time to time, but there were all kinds of exemptions. And what was left was sucked into the intake, trained for a period of months, and then went out, adding no value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services over any sustained period of time, because the churning that took place, it took enormous amount of effort in terms of training, and then they were gone."

Donald Rumsfeld has maligned every fighting man who fought in Viet Nam and pissed on every memorial to the 58,000 who died in that nasty confrontation.

To say the guys who were drafted and died were of no value is the most blatant blasphemy immaginable.

Publius