Isn't It Interesting How Afraid The Hawks Are Of The Draft?

[ThomWV]

Mention the draft in front of any of the war harks in Congress or the Administration and they recoil in shock. "No, we don't need it" they will cry in a single voice.

They are afraid of the common man you know. They will make every excuse in the world - mostly hinting that draftees are incompetent, incapable of learning, not absorptive of training, or cowardly in general but that not what they are afraid of. They fear reasonable people in their ranks who were not brainwashed before they got there.

George Bush is afraid of the common man too, so is Congress. If there were ever a mass march on Washington when the President and the Congress were actually in town it might make a difference.

[raccoon]

1. Good idea. And I agree, it actually might.

Bush and his cronies are so deathly afraid of dissent.

[HereSince1628]

2. They also may be afraid of losing dividends from Blackwater

"Contracting" has become big business, and guess where the contracting companies donate?

[my2sense]

3. Blackwater will

be in the streets to meet any protest with their new taser shotguns and shyt.

[islandmkl]

4. in a twisted way, i wish they would reinstitute the draft....

then, when some a-hole prez wants to send young Americans off to die for corporate profits and EVERYBODY is eligible to go...the backlash would be staggering...the power structure does not want to revisit 1964-1972...the absence of a draft makes all these 'incursions' painless for most Americans...if there WAS a draft, Bush & Co. would have been out on their asses by now...i like to think. On the other hand, we would have had about 600,000 Americans in Iraq before the shit hit the fan, and the neocons would have engineered an even WORSE debacle.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. That's the whole point of the bills Charlie Rangel has been putting

up for years - start up the draft, not because he's a hawk, but because a draft would ensure that we would not send anybody's kids off to war without a VERY good reason.

Draftees have fought very well and successfully in the Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korea, and Vietnam. Saying that draftees are worthless, incompetant soldiers dishonors generations of American soldiers who were victorious in terrible conflicts - and make no mistake, the Vietnam draftees were among the most competant, well-trained, and well disciplined soldiers that we've known, and they won nearly every battle they fought - it was the war itself that was the loser, not the citizen soldiers.

[Lilith Velkor]

6. A draft would be political suicide

The hippie generation can take credit for that.

Of course, a lot of them want the draft back now that they're too old to go. Maybe they'll get the Democratic party to fall upon that sword.

Stupid fucks.