Breaking News: Draft Reinstated In USA Announcement.

Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
It's an election year.
Any talk about reinstating the draft would be career suicide for whoever's doing the talking....

Do you think it really matters who's doing the talking? Personally I think that the Rep. are becoming more liberal in a sence every day.

The draft is a big problem, and no one should be forced to do anything of the sort.

I'm sick and tired of the draft being used as a political football by the left.

For the record, Charles Rangel of NY -- Democrat -- is the one who brought up the draft and put a bill before congress concerning it.

The military and the pentagon do NOT want a draft.... the only reason it is being brought up is to scare people into voting Democratic in November. It's really a non-issue that amounts to raw political propaganda.

i hope that the mods will move this into the mud pit at some point... because the notion of an active draft is certainly NOT realistic news.

ran across this today online...
it's from the Navel Institute Magazine- "Proceedings".
the author ends his analysis suggesting the draft as part of the answer..
so much for that Navy recruiter telling me it would never, ever, happen..



"� We have broken our social contract with the members of the National Guard and the reserve forces, misusing them as substitutes for active forces in an open-ended operation in Iraq that is well short of national emergency. These backup forces are demoralized and headed for the door. Rebuilding the reserves may take a generation.
� The combat strength of our ground forces will be badly bogged down in the Middle East for years to come. Policing a broken nation and skirmishing with irregulars, they are anchored in Iraq; we have little left for the rest of the world. Terrorism? North Korea? Iran? More force in Afghanistan? We have only the Navy and the Air Force to send, but they alone cannot take and hold ground, root out terrorists, or alter a bad regime.
� We have few resources left to fix things. Instead of investing in new military capabilities, we divert defense funds to refilling ammunition bins and paying for peacekeeping. The military improvements needed for the future are lost in the dusty sands of Iraq.
Our American military is in trouble. Is there a fix? We should share the burden, spreading to the rest of our society the sacrifice now made solely by our fine people in uniform. How? With realistic funding to pay the true costs and a return of the draft. Pending that, it will be up to the military to struggle through the current mess and protect us as best it can until we can get ourselves back to battery.

The U.S. Military is in Bad, Good, BAD, Shape
By Captain John Byron, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Proceedings, July 2004
www.usni.org...

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oops!!!
might have messed up posting this, if it's a double post, sorry!