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To: tsigprofit who wrote (9404)	4/21/2004 3:13:38 PM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

other original post on draft stuff from Repubs: Anyone have children of military draft age?> Senator says US may need compulsory service to boost Iraq force, WASHINGTON (AFP) Apr 20, 2004 A senior Republican lawmaker said Tuesday that deteriorating security in Iraq may force the United States to reintroduce the military draft. "There's not an American ... that doesn't understand what we are engaged in today and what the prospects are for the future," Senator Chuck Hagel told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on post-occupation Iraq. "Why shouldn't we ask all of our citizens to bear some responsibility and pay some price?" Hagel said, arguing that restoring compulsory military service would force "our citizens to understand the intensity and depth of challenges we face." The Nebraska Republican added that a draft, which was ended in the early 1970s, would spread the burden of military service in Iraq more equitably among various social strata. spacewar.com _____________________________________________________ And it gets worse> -- Egypt's president says Arabs hold a "hatred never equaled" toward America. Jordan's king abruptly postpones a visit to the White House. And those are among the United States' best friends in the Arab world. The war in Iraq, and a shift on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, has left the Bush administration facing growing hostility and an estrangement from friends across the Middle East. "There is enormous anger in the Arab world that needs to be dealt with," said Nail Al-Jubeir, a spokesman for the Saudi embassy in Washington. sfgate.com.

To: tsigprofit who wrote (9404)	4/21/2004 3:16:24 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20773

Bush is a political animal. There are two things that are impossible for him to do: (1) pull out of Iraq; (2) reinstate the draft. So he will do the only thing he can, which is to muddle along in Iraq, neither winning nor losing, while the casualties mount up. If Bush gets re-elected it will be the end of the republican party for at least a decade.

To: tsigprofit who wrote (9404)	4/21/2004 3:20:41 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

I still think it would be political suicide to bring back the draft. It's certainly the fair way to put our nation's young men and women in harm's way, though- but only if there are no deferments, and no preferences. Strictly lottery- and let those big mouths in the house and senate pony up their kids to go fight the war they are allowing to continue. Saddam was apparently not part of 9/11 Saddam had no WMD's and wasn't a threat to anyone but the Israelis, and not even a huge threat to them we invade Iraq even though Al Q is everywhere else but Iraq, on the pretext that Iraq is a threat and 9/11 changed everything (like the rules of logic, perhaps?) Now we need a draft to keep fighting a war we shouldn't have started in the first place? If things get any stupider in this country people are going to de-evolve back into monkeys- although that might be an insult to monkeys.