Prepare for the draft.

[Brian_Expat]

When you hug your college-age children, savor the moment, because it might be one of the last times you get to hug them before they get shipped off to die in World War W.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=14466

So again, how are you going to carry out the neo-con strategy of regime change throughout the Middle East (with a showdown with North Korea thrown in as a side dish)?

The answer is bringing back the draft.

It's something that few want to talk about, but it will be increasingly inevitable - especially if President Bush gets a second term. There is no way the "war on terror," as defined by the neo-cons who conjured up the Iraq invasion, can be carried out without a substantial increase in military manpower.

The cannon fodder for the Bush administrations neo-con imperialist adventures have to come from somewhere and you don't see many people standing in line to be a part of it. Enlistments for the military aren't up. Unless you have a death wish, would you willingly volunteer to go Iraq and face 1 in 10 odds that you're going to get hurt, perhaps seriously? Are you feeling lucky and think that the 200-1 longshot won't come in and you won't end up coming home in a body bag?

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The SSS has recently been seeking volunteers to serve on draft boards with a goal filling 8,000 draft board slots by spring 2005. Unlike the Vietnam War era, there will be no student deferments. If you get called up, you be allowed to finish your current semester and then off you go. And fleeing to Canada won't be an option. There's already talk of sealing the borders if there is a national emergency - the sort of thing that would prompt a return of conscription.

The official denials that there is no need for a return to the draft will continue because it is an election year. President Bush will likely keep his mouth shut on the subject until after the election out of fear of scaring young voters. But if Bush gets a second term, don't be shocked if we start seeing nervous young men reporting to their local draft boards in 2005.

[bluestateguy]

1. Oh we won't need a draft

Surely all of those College Republicans and Young Conservatives of Texas will be the first to sign up and serve their country.

;)

[lcordero]

2. I hate to tell you but

even if the presidency changes hands, if we have an occupationist President then we are still going to have to bring back the draft. The military is overstretched beyond belief because of all of the executive adventurism in the last 70 years.

[bluestateguy]

3. kick

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