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To: Sully- who wrote (8163)	3/4/2005 12:28:41 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble The QandO Blog Posted by: McQ Antiwar activists and so-called "military experts" are keeping draft talk bubbling and simmering just below the surface: <<< The United States no longer has a military draft and hasn't since 1973, when it converted to an all-volunteer military. But some anti-war activists say it's only a matter of time before the Bush administration and the Republican-controlled Congress bring it back. Meanwhile, conservatives and moderates outside the administration have taken a hard look at America's military commitments and are urging Congress to beef up the Army and Marines. >>> And the military has begun to plan to beef them up. But that fact doesn't matter to those who find their best interests served by rumor mongering about the draft. <<< "We already have our troops stretched to the limit," said J.E. McNeil, executive director of the Center on Conscience & War. The Guard and Reserve cannot continue to provide about 40 percent of the nation's combat troops, Biden said. As a result, McNeil and other anti-war activists such as Sally Milbury-Steen, executive director of the Wilmington-based peace organization Pacem in Terris, said they think a draft is on the horizon. "I think there's a very good chance of a military draft in the next two years. We have soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq and now they're heating up the rhetoric on Iran. Where else will the soldiers come from?" Milbury-Steen asked. >>> Another who's sure its going to happen is here. dailyemerald.com Here's a challenge: Name a politican in his right mind (note the caveat) who'd vote to reinstitute a draft right now (or even in the near future)? Realpolitik time. 2006 is right around the corner and 2008 isn't far away. If you ever thought there really was a third rail in politics, this is it. I can guarantee one thing right here and right now. In the absense of a real national emergency like WW II, you couldn't convince any politician (or political party) to reinstitute the draft to save your life. Every one of them know that if they voted to do so they could kiss their political career goodby for good. He or she would be political dead meat. There isn't going to be a draft based on the current situation. Obviously things could radically change to the point that we'd need one. However, based on today's situation and even while its true that we need more troops, we do not have a need which necessitates a draft. Anyone with the brain of a muskrat would know nothing would be more destructive to the military we have today than a draft. And such a move would be even more destructive to the politicians and political party which voted it in. Politicians aren't going to risk either for a little more manpower. Its. Not. Going. To. Happen. qando.net

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