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If my friend went to Iraq, I'd rather him coming back in one piece too.

Good thing that none of my friends went, your friends do not have to go either.




your friends do not have to go either

wow...if you delete your post, i promise i'll delete my quoting you to remove the evidence of your ignorance.


The American army no longer uses conscription to fill its ranks.


thank you for correcting my facts the way a robot or autistic child would, but allow me to spell this out for you.

ignorance is not the same as factually incorrect. if i said to an obese woman "you are looking fat today," though correct, i would either be behaving purposely mean or ignorant to social norms.

similarly, someone telling another person [the people you love who have chosen to defend your country in war have done so needlessly] is ignorant to social norms.

since you are not american is it safe to assume you personally know zero american soldiers at war right now?


Why is that ignorant? If you don't want to risk being ordered to fight in a war you don't believe in, then you don't join the military.




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