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To: quehubo who wrote (52847)	7/5/2004 8:57:33 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793781

Q, The draft can only work when their a strong national consensus regarding the war thats being fought. There is no such consensus now and most folks consider the "war" to be the one(unpopular to half the population) in iraq. The WOT is vague and the War in Afganistan is not fully understood. A draft in such a circumstance would undercut support even further for all the wars mentioned above, as parents become more upset and anti-war and ambivalent youth starts heading to canada (again). I, too, would rather spend more money than recreate the situation that both failed(PRO: we lost because of the unrest at home) and/or succeeded(ANTI: saved lives in a war we would have lost later anyway) in vietnam. This time around many of us formerly anti-war(VN) folk are allied with you. This war is different. It must be fought now and it must be won now. This is no peripheral battle like vietnam was in the cold war--this is the real thing, but unlike WW2 it is either too vague for the american people and/or our leaders have not (yet) brought the american people to accept this fact. A draft under these circumstances would be a disaster imo. Mike