Many more "dumb goy" ( and perhaps a few US jews as well) will be fighting and dying in the Mideast if the Likudniks get their way:
"A number of analysts said yesterday that while any public suggestion of a draft would be politically suicidal for U.S. President George W. Bush in an election year, he could find himself with few other options if he is returned for a second term and the fighting in Iraq is still raging," writes the Toronto Star.
"[A draft] would require action from Congress and the president and they are not likely to do that unless there was something of the magnitude of the Second World War that required it," Dan Amon, a spokesman for the selective service department, told the Guardian.
But wait a minute. According to the neocons, what's going on in the Middle East is World War IV. "This fourth world war, I think, will last considerably longer than either World Wars I or II did for us," former CIA Director James Woolsey told students at the University of California at Los Angeles in April.
The Bush neocons are all over the idea of WW IV like white on rice.
"The cold war was World War III, which reminds us that not all global conflicts entail the movement of multi-million-man armies, or conventional front lines on a map," writes Eliot Cohen of the War Street Journal. "The analogy with the cold war does, however, suggest some key features of that conflict: that it is, in fact, global; that it will involve a mixture of violent and nonviolent efforts; that it will require mobilization of skill, expertise and resources, if not of vast numbers of soldiers; that it may go on for a long time; and that it has ideological roots." (Emphasis mine.)
The "Zionist Weltpolitikers" (as Samuel Francis characterizes the neocons) "surrounding the President [were] plotting how they might escalate the war far beyond the 'liberation' of Baghdad. That the most extreme of the cabal wanted an expanded war for their own ulterior reasons was not open to doubt -- almost all of those crowing most loudly for a full-scale war in the Middle East were well-known partisans of Israel and her interests."
One such crower is Norman Podhoretz. "The United States has the will to fight World War IV -- the war against militant Islam -- to a successful conclusion, and [whether] we then have the stomach to impose [italics his] a new political culture on the defeated parties. This is what we did directly and unapologetically in Germany and Japan after winning World War II; it is what we have indirectly striven with some success to help achieve in the former Communist countries since winning World War II; and it is George W. Bush's ultimate aim in World War IV... The regimes that richly deserve to be overthrown and replaced are not confined to the three singled-out members of the axis of evil [Iraq, Iran, and North Korea]. At a minimum, the axis should extend to Syria and Lebanon and Libya, as well as 'friends' of America like the Saudi royal family and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, along with the Palestinian Authority, whether headed by Arafat or one of his henchmen."
Obviously, such ambitions are not accomplished with 132,000 soldiers in Iraq.
"It should come as no surprise," writes Dave Lindorff, "even as the president and his advisers continue to claim that everything is going well and according to plan, that saner heads at the Pentagon are taking steps to prepare for return to the draft... A draft would be a political disaster for the president, so most military experts say it is unlikely that a return to conscription would occur before the November 2004 presidential election, but if the guerrilla war in Iraq continues to get worse, the day after that election, the president could well be forced to decide on either a phased withdrawal or escalation -- and a national call-up... Recall that during the Vietnam War, when the U.S. had a military about twice as large as today, fielding a force of 500,000 soldiers required a major conscription program."
"While I don't think we're close to [a military draft], that may be on down the line," said retiring Sen. Zell Miller said on Monday. "We must stay the course. We cannot cut and run because if we do not fight this war in Iraq we're going to have to fight in on the streets of America. And we cannot allow that to happen... Perhaps [a draft] may be something we have to consider on down the line. It will be tough. A lot of people will not like it. But it may very well be something that we have to look at very seriously."
Sure, it will be "tough," especially for the middle class and working class kids who will be conscripted into involuntary servitude -- and, for thousands of them, a certain death sentence.
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