Reply #97: Yes and look what you got for your effort.

[zeemike]

Perpetual war...a military made up of mostly poor people and sociopaths that commit atrocities all over the world in our name.
A vast military industrial complex that makes lots of money off these wars and mercenaries that are accountable to no one.
Conscription did not start WW2 Hitler and the Axis powers did and we were very late getting into it...in fact it took a direct attack to get us into it. And that is probably due in some part to the fact of conscription because congressmen sons had to serve too.
you will never end war when the military is filled with rank and file professionals...history has proven that.