Experts see military draft as inevitable

[Dems4HowardDean]

http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2005/02/17expertsseemilit.html
Experts see military draft as inevitable
Anti-war activists fear revival of selective service
By MIKE BILLINGTON / The News Journal
02/17/2005

There may come a day when Uncle Sam wants Wayne Flenniken for the U.S. Army.

In many ways, he's an ideal candidate for military service. At 15, he already has finished high school and is enrolled at Delaware Technical & Community College studying Spanish and English. There is a problem, however. Wayne doesn't want any part of Uncle Sam's Army - or anyone else's, for that matter.

"I don't believe in war and I don't like the military in any way, shape or form," he said. "I don't think anyone should be forced to die prematurely."

That's why he went to a draft resistance training session Friday in his hometown of Newark. It's why Wayne has begun building his case as a conscientious objector.
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[EVDebs]

1. Bob Herbert's "The Republican's Bizarre Parallel Universe"

http://www.iht.com/articles/537205.html

shows that McCain and the rest of them think we'll be stuck over there in Iraq (and the new bases built all over the Caspian/PersianGulf region) for around 10 to 20 years...'that's not so bad...'

TEN OR TWENTY YEARS ? THAT'S NOT SO BAD ? HOW FAR UP HIS ASS IS HIS HEAD ?

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Anyone who did not believe there would be a draft had to be a total maroon

[DrWeird]

5. Mmhmm.

especially the ones whose best argument is:

Bush said there wouldn't be one.

[Eloriel]

3. I have come to believe that The Plan re the Draft was this:

That they would so overuse, ruin, demoralize and otherwise destroy our military as it currently exists that it would be Democrats (like Biden, Rangel, and probably others) -- the RESPONSIBLE ones in power -- who would be BEGGING Bush to reinstate the draft, crafting legislation that dragged Bush and Rumsfeld kicking and screaming ("Please don't throw me in the briarpatch!") all the way to signing it (well, Rumsfeld doesn't sign it, but you get the idea).

Watch and see if it works out that way.

[Jensen]

7. Totally agree....sorry to say!

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. But, but, but the Presnit sad NO DRAFT during the campaign

he would not like.. now would he?

<sarcasm off>

[Windy]

6. Others on DU have posted that they have been called up for

Selective Service draft board duty...