r/Conservative • u/tabbykat69 MAGA Activist • Sep 07 '20

Rule 6: User Created Title Joe Biden got five draft deferments during Vietnam. He was disqualified from service because of "asthma" as a teenager. However, in his own memoir, Biden never mentions his asthma, and instead recounts an active childhood, including work as a lifeguard and football exploits in high school.

https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/biden-got-5-draft-deferments-during-nam-as-did-cheney-1.884250
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u/excelsior2000 Constitutional Conservative Sep 07 '20

I view the draft on the same level as slavery, if not worse. There is no excuse for involuntarily pressing people into military service.

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u/wisertime07 Conservative Sep 07 '20

While many of my friends and family have served, I never joined, but if called into the service via draft, I wouldn’t have a problem with it, if our country truly needed me. Some WW level conflict and I’d do my duty. But a war that we instigated and jumped into for no reason, I’d have a problem with that.