Bring the draft, then we'll see how many of these conservatives with "Support Our Troops" stickers on their minivans suddenly turn tail and start running to the peace rallies or get deferrments.

So, erm, hypothetically, what with the "don't ask don't tell," policy still in place, one could go into a draft office acting as flaming as possible and "tell"ing one's unacceptable sexual identity loudly and they'd have to turn you away right? Even if it weren't true? I mean, how would they refute that?

go to a war? fight for your country? are you crazy? you're fighting for profit, greed, Halliburton.
The government don't care about you. You live in an illusion. They care about power, control and profit. Nothing else. How many of them in congress have their sons and daughters in the war. Not cousins etc... direct family. Hardly any. Wake up, this is about control and power, not freedom.

They are cutting veterans' programs, making soldiers and marines do several tours in Iraq and extending their service.

Who would want to join now? They are using these young people who join, abusing them.

If there is a draft, my sons will be gay AND crazy, or outside the USA.

NO WAY should we have an across the board Draft. I say ONLY those who SUPPORT THIS WAR SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO GO FIGHT IT!

The rules of the new draft were set 2 years ago when they fully funded the selective service system.

18 - 35 Male & Female - No deferments - nada - zip - zero

18 - 45 if you have special skills they need such as doctors and nurses.

by the way, this all happened while you were shopping and watching friends.

the american sheeple need to wake up yesterday!

90% percent of the individuals who have posted something on this topic seem to be spectators - they talk the talk, but when it comes to walking, they come up shy.
I am not siding with one side of the debate or the other, but if you have a problem with the government, WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE. TAKE ACTION. this is a democracy, i think many people forget that. It is a goverment controlled by the people.
Quit complaining and do something.

The neocons don't want a draft. They know that a draft would mean all these suburban "security" moms and dads would fear that their own children may have to fight and die in a meaningless war. They wouldn't vote for a pro-war government if there was a chance their own child would have to fight.

Draft or no draft, I am not going to kill people trying to repel an illegal invasion of their nation. My loyalty to a nation stops when I have to condem my soul to hell to prove it.

Wow...You must truly be delusional to believe that writing letters to representitives is going to get you anywhere. Isn't writing a letter from your safe cozy home just the same as spectating? The only thing that writing letters to the government will get you is your name on a watch list, and thats not very democratic now is it?
The real issue at stake here is that the government is no longer controlled by the people at all. Just take a closer look..did the majority of us elect this moron in the first place? If our votes don't matter, why would you think a silly little letter is going to help change the world. Corporations and a small faction of the elite are really in control..and the last time i checked this was known as Fascism. Its time to wake up and come up with a new strategy at making a change. If you really believe what you just said...then you have officially been duped.

Since the voting public was happy with the direction our country was being taken by this administration, they should now be willing to put their money (or in this case, their children) where there mouth/vote is.

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I am not happy and never have been happy with this administration. I did not vote for George Bush and I find him to be a deplorable, dispicable little dictator. The war is wrong and has always been wrong. Not to mention, he promised during the 2004 Election Debate that as long as he was president, there would never be a draft. This will be just one more broken promise in a long line of broken promises and lies from this president and his jackal cronies. His abuse of the American people is tantamount to treason. Let the chickenhawks put their children on the line. I will encourage my family to send their children abroad and help pay for it if need be.

I'm afraid that the soldiers who say a draft is needed or the war will be lost are correct. The needed draft is politically impossible, the national will to fight a war with no purpose and no end is fleeing,and now we must gather the courage to say, "America has lost the War in Iraq. We have lost a stupid, optional, ill led war, so heads must roll. But, it's not the end of the world. What does America do to recover her stature?"
Maybe, we should value respect more and fear a lot less. What's the opposit of shock and awe? Calm and humble, maybe?
"Speak softly and carry a big stick...T.R)

If the Neo-Cons are going to instate the draft, I hope they do so before November 7. As soon as they make the announcement, every democrat running for office immediately gets a 30-40 point boost at the polls. Talk about a sweep.

I belong to the SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM in MARYLAND, this is what I will say. If the bring back the draft they will be no RUSH LIMBAUGHS this time. To lie to the draft board it is a 250,000 fine and five years in a fedral prison I hope FT. Levinworth. So you have a chois this time ARMY,NAAVY,MARINES, AIR FORCE, COAST GUARD AND FRDRIL PRISON, THE NAVY,AIR FORCE AND COAST GUARD are always FULL so IT IS ARMY, MARINES, as bullet stoppers. GOOD LUCK

Draft Young Republicans. Leave the rest of us alone.

votevets.org

All candidates endorsed on the front page of the website are Democrats.

"Bipartisan"?

Who you tryin' to fool, Brian Ross?

Your absolutely right stranded. I made a complaint about how airport security was treating the general public, was taken against my will for nothing more than voicing my opinion, beaten, and then tossed out on the street for my trouble. I have since been put on a 'no-fly' list, and am sure it is just a matter of time till the infamous 'men in black' pay me a visit. I'm done with this country. Our facist, racist, elite government can have it. Power to the people? Not since WW1.

I say draft the children of the chicken hawks, bring the real soldiers home and let the chicken juniors die for their parents lies. Then the chicken hawks could go next and die for own lies instead of killing others for them.
I do agree with a complete withdrawl from Iraq and to answer the war whores...The Vietnamese didn't bring the war to our shores when we left that country (or chased out is a bit more accurate and I would hate to see that same mistakes of mismanagewment repeated Iraq.)

This war was bulit on a LiE.
We were told the Oil from the War would pay for reconstucion.
Remember W said he could balance the Budget and give a Tax cut to the RICH, another LIE. Now each American $30,000 more in the hole.

3300 Dead in 911.
250 in NO
Over 2500 Dead American Soldiers
Over 30,000 in IRAQ.

Anyone who still trusts the LIER IN CHIEF is drunk or blind.

They should draft the guys listed as GOP first, Dem Second and Indy last.....