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Re:Obama (was) to require 100 hours of community service a y... by tptacek on Friday November 07, 2008 @10:26PM (#357426)
Spare us the innuendo. Mandatory service is not an Israeli innovation and it doesn't come from "kibbutzim". The Finns, the Danish, the Germans, and the Brazilians all have mandatory military service too. So do the Swiss, not exactly the hub of Western European socialism.
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Re:Obama (was) to require 100 hours of community service a y... by nickb on Saturday November 08, 2008 @03:45PM (#357819)
What innuendo? I'm talking about where HE got the idea and not where the same idea is being used around the world.
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