Wouldn't a DRAFT support our current troops? Could you imagine

[jerryme1]

the Bushco response if a body of congress passed legislation reinstituing the DRAFT? Imagine Rove having to explain how the Draft would not actually support our current troops.

[misternormal]

1. NO DRAFT !!!

Welcome to DU by the way...

:headbang:

[jerryme1]

4. Why fear the draft? As an army member, I think military expereince

may benefit some of America's video game youth; the draft would increase voter turnout; and the US would not likely be in Iraq, at this point, if there were a draft. Imagine the protest.

[misternormal]

5. There was a draft...

... During Viet Nam... and who went and fought??

Guys from no name towns from allover the country... The well off kids hardly ever went...

Too little too late.

No draft... :headbang:

[jerryme1]

7. I think the draft would work for the next time, after we exit Iraq. It would

hopefully help us to assess more clearly before we undertake military action and occupation. I don't recall, was a draft in place prior to the Vietnam war?

[misternormal]

8. Yep, there was... n/t

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/deploymentsconflicts/l/bldrafthistory.htm

[jerryme1]

10. thanks

[bigtree]

6. I'd rather my kids played their video game than join the Army

at least until we can establish more congressional control over deployments and declarations of war, like revising and enforcing the WPA

[jerryme1]

9. "Congressional control" is not an abstraction. The people, through their votes, force congress

to act. More people would likely protest for change and vote if there was an active draft.

[bigtree]

11. bullshit. there's nothing in our constitution mandating compulsory service

there's nothing in the way of lessening these manufactured 'commitments abroad to re-effect a working defense using our volunteer forces. We've already seen what the republicans do when they control the agenda. More troops means more opportunities to deploy them. I like the manpower restraints. It serves to restrict the choices of the administration in how much they are willing to expend feathering their imperialism.

[jerryme1]

12. I agree. Our constitution does not yet require compulsory service.

[personman]

16. How does death benefit them? How does killing benefit them?

You have it completely backwards. Video games = worse then killing for real?

Perhaps we should be pulling people out of the military, and setting the ones with more insatiable violent urges in front of these video games, where their bloodlust can be somewhat sated without a cost of real human lives.

-personman

Fuck the draft, send congress, send bush, send the rich.

Edit:
Why the hell NOT fear the draft? Whose interests are being served if we are forced to go kill people in the middle east? ours? pfff

This country has a long history of rich people forcing the poor to fight their wars. Starting with George Washington, in fact.
Presidents, governments, are oppressors and killers. I certainly won't be a part of it.

If people really want to fight for freedom they'll fight their government.

[PDJane]

2. I would like to see him sputter through that........

But the fragging incidents would be horrendous, at this point.

[BOSSHOG]

3. I would appreciate some insane liberal democratic congressman

(preferably a vet) introducing a bill while ranting and raving and looking rather deranged that every man and woman who has never served in the military up to the age of 50 will be required to give their country at least two years of mandatory service effective immediately. We'd then discover just how large those conservative chickenshit chickenhawk cocks really are.

[OHdem10]

13. If anyone is serious about ending wars--Institute the Draft.

Do you think for one minute, those weasely Congressmen
would knee-jerk vote for war if the kids of the Elites,
the kids of Wall-Streeters, the kids of Corporates
the kids of Journalists were eligible for the Draft.

You are no different than the Chickenhawks who send
other peoples' kids to war.

Furthermore, if you really wanted to stop war you would
demand a war tax. If a war is worth fighting it is
worth paying for. How many Republicans are going to
plunge us into war if they have to raise taxes to
pay for it??????

I do not mean to sound harsh. Just War Weary.

[formercia]

14. Junior's Cannon Fodder Blank Check.

and he would use it.

[jerryme1]

15. Remember Gordon Gekko - "Greed is Good." These politicians will

do anything to hold on to their seats. If public outcry conclusively demanded troops out of Iraq, congress would quickly honor the wishes of voters.