Joe Galloway: Back Bush's War Strategy? Then Bring Back the Draft

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003577652

Here's a question for those who still support President Bush's strategy to stretch out the Iraq war until after he's left office, and for those who think we should be prepared to continue our bloody occupation of Iraq for five or 10 more years:

Are you ready to support reinstating Selective Service -- the draft -- even if that means your sons and daughters or your grandchildren will have to put on the uniform and go hold the cities and towns of a nation in the middle of a civil war?

Until now, the burden and sacrifices of military service in Afghanistan and Iraq have been borne by volunteers -- young men and women who in large part hail from small towns and counties of our nation.

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Does anyone really believe that the war in Iraq would have dragged on for four-plus years if draftees from all over the country were doing the fighting and dying and suffering now quietly absorbed by today's volunteer troops and their families?

If you aren't prepared to invest your son or daughter in continuing this war, then it's time for you to give some serious thought to how and when it can be ended, and what the candidates for president in 2008 are saying about an open-ended commitment of other Americans' sons and daughters to a war we can't afford and can't win.

[AndyTiedye]

1. A Draft Is What They Want, But They Want Democrats to Take the Heat for It

Does anyone really believe that the war in Iraq would have dragged on for four-plus years if draftees from all over the country were doing the fighting and dying and suffering now quietly absorbed by today's volunteer troops and their families?

Yes. The Vietnam war went on even longer.

The people who brought us this war want a draft. They want to subdue and occupy the oil producing countries of the middle east, and they know they need a huge supply of cannon fodder to do it. They will try to trick the Democrats into enacting it for them. Then we get all the blame when kids come home in body bags and the Repiglicans sweep the elections.