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{Politics.811.21}: T.J. McGovern {tj2} Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:21:56 EDT (23 lines)

I'm not sure how we were supposed to weigh in. I don't want a draft,
I think it makes it even easier to start a war. While the priviledged
will evade and avoid, there will still be a much bigger pool of cannon
fodder from which to draw, and considering why we fight wars today, I
couldn't support it as "serving your country" which once I might have
done.

Might an Obama administration reinstitute a draft? He has already
said he will escalate the war in Afghanistan, the push to attack Iran
will not die with the end of the Bush administration, and there will
always be ample opportunity to continue the expansion of empire, so
why not? The Bush cabal has so thinly stretched the volunteer military
that they have essentially drafted thousands who thought their service
was ended, and they were recalled. I think they were being pressured
to institute a draft, but would not because they don't believe that
anyone but the poor and minorities should have to die in wars. Just as
slaveholders sent their slaves to fight and die in the civil war to
help guarantee their captivity, so the Bushies send the blacks and
Hispanics whom they keep in poverty to die for their oil profits. I
think Obama would see that a draft was a way to spread the misery
around, but I would rather have a president who would end our foreign
adventures rather than simply increasing the size of the troop force
sent out to conquer the world.

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