New Buzzflash Editorial on (you guessed it) the DRAFT! Rummy Confession!!!

[Dems Will Win]

Coming to a home near you in 2005!!

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/03/12/edi03011.html

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The director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, told the House Armed Services Committee in November that "the active Army would be unable to sustain an occupation force of the present size beyond March 2004 if it chose not to keep individual units deployed to Iraq for longer than one year without relief."

The Army, he said, could not "simultaneously maintain the occupation at its current size, limit deployments to one year, and sustain all of its other commitments."

With little relief seen in the Iraq insurgency -- and the climbing American death toll, despite Saddam's "capture," the need for a large long-term U.S. troop presence there will remain, as far as the Bush Administration is concerned. And let's not forget that this war on terrorism may not end with Iraq: Syria and Iran in 2005, perhaps?

In the most recent issue of Time, even Rumsfeld now concedes that the military forces may need to grow substantially. So it's clear that the current force level is insufficient, but no one in the Bush administration is going to go public in a big way until after the 2004 election.

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[MSchreader]

1. Two things, from the article

"The president's youngest fans aren't old enough to remember the draft boards of the 1960s and 1970s that sized up thousands upon thousands of anxious young men, many of whom were sent to battle and never heard from again."

Honestly, I doubt if * can remember the 1960s and 1970s.

"Talk to a young person about draft boards today (the draft ended in 1973) and they're likely to think of them as ancient as bell bottoms and less capable of making a comeback."

As I recall, bell bottoms have been making a comeback. Not a good sign, if you ask me.

Martin

[Chef]

2. Draft

I doubt that the republican college students will loose much sleep over the draft. After all, that's what God made the lower classes for. There is no way they could institute a draft without offering the more well connected a way to legally avoid it, freeing them up to become congressmen or republican defense consultants.

I would love to sit on a local draft board, but I'm affraid I could not faithfully carry out my duties as the temptation to defer certain ones while sending others to the meat grinder would be too great.

[atreides1]

3. I Will Be Serving On A Board

For obvious reasons I will not say where, all I can say for now is that I filled out the application and was contacted by the person in charge in my area, I raised my right hand and took the oath. Now we wait and see what happens.

By the way the rules are not the same as they were during Vietnam, even college deferments are limited. Personally I feel that all young people should have the right to defend their country, and it does not matter to me whether you're rich, poor, educated,uneducated, black, white, brown, red, yellow, Democrat, Republican, Liertarian, Greens, or anything or anyone else that makes up this diverse country of ours.

I served, I was a volunteer, I went to Desert Storm, and maybe it's time that these Bush followers find out that death isn't fun, or that
losing a piece of your body isn't all they think it is, maybe it's time for them to take part in something that they support so much.

[alfredo]

5. I signed up for the board, nearly a year ago.

As yet, no response.

[beyurslf]

4. I've applied for my local draft board.

I hope to get the position and will accept any deferement or request I am given. No one should be forced to fight in one of his wars.

[Dems Will Win]

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