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Raul asked in Politics & GovernmentMilitary · 1 decade ago

if there's a war what people will flee the country?

and people with money get bi citizenship to get away from the draft do they get their us citizenship taken away

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    If you are a dual citizen of certain countries you can get a deferment given certain conditions are met. Just because they draft you doesn't mean they'll take you.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well, if you have dual citizenship, that means you remain a US citizen. It also means that you would still be eligible for draft and required to register with Selective Service (if you are male). However, if you lived outside the country you would be less likely to be drafted and, if you were, you could escape it easier.

    Many draft dodgers that flee the country formally renounce their citizenship. Those that don't often face serious legal issues when they return. Whether or not they lose their citizenship is sometimes taken on a case-by-case basis as are most criminal matters.

    I oppose a draft in any form (Selective Service is too far). However, anyone who runs away to Canada or something like that does not have my respect. If you want to avoid the draft, stay here and fight it like a man. These guys didn't have the balls to fight in the military and they didn't have the balls to fight the draft. They ran from both.

  • 1 decade ago

    Flee what country?

    During the Vietnam War there were men who left to go to Canada...now days Canada wouldn't accept Americans who are running from the draft. They made an announcement about that when we started conflict in Iraq/Afghanistan.

    There have been a lot of wars over the years and I am sure that there will continue to be wars for as long as people are on the planet Earth...someone will always be fighting someone else.

    I have heard that US Citizen can not return to the US if they left during a draft to get out of it...

    I wouldn't worry so much because there hasn't been a draft in this country for over 30 years.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Usually those with large amounts of money.

    Any US draft has always included ways for the rich to avoid it. This is as true as the honest version during the civil war, as the "college exemptions", graduate schooling, and "My daddy got me a place in the Guard" methods of Vietnam.

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