It came upon me in a blinding flash - why Bush is adament that there will be no draft.
Firstly - consider that Bush wants a small government - well a government that relaxes regulations, low taxes, and no social programs - or very few. He is for privatization. He would privatize social security, healthcare and the military. YES - you heard me - the military.
This is why there will be no draft. Private defense firms will fill the gap. You BET they are much more expensive than a domestic military - BUT that is the point. He would make sure that security trumps social programs. AND, we hear very very little in regards to mercenaries being killed in Iraq. This is more good news for Bush. People do not get so upset when a mercenary is killed as they were well paid to do a dangerous job.
here is a snip of an article that gave me the epiphany....
In the private sector, the US government has awarded lucrative contracts to security technology and mercenary contracting firms tied to the Abu Ghraib scandal by General Antonio Taguba's investigation.
CACI International, which provides interrogators to supplement the US Army's intelligence and counterintelligence operations in Iraq, revealed last week that it has obtained contracts valued at $266 million.
That announcement came less than a month after the US Army awarded a six-month "bridging contract" worth as much as $400 million to Titan Corp, the San Diego-based security firm also tied to the Abu Ghraib abuses. That contract will likely keep Titan's force of over 4,000 translators working in Iraq until September 2005.
Later last month, Titan landed a National Security Agency deal that will rope the publicly traded defense giant another $300 million. On October 1 Titan scored a five-year "indefinite-delivery, indefinit-quantity multiple-award" technical contract from the US Navy valued at over $1 billion. To continue the streak, on Thursday the Navy awarded Titan a separate five-year contract worth $109 million.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7108.htmwell du'ers....think I am crazy?????