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Draft buy-out dropped

February 18, 2022

On January 29, the Majlis Budget Committee said it has agreed to resume a program allowing men to buy their way out of the military draft, a program dropped three years ago.  Angry opposition was swift and loud.  Two days later, the Majlis committee announced it had dropped the idea.  The US allowed draftees in the Civil War to buy their way out, but never after that.

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