don't we have draft registration? My friend just had to go fight his school because he did register like normal at age 18, as a conscientious objector because he's a mennonite, but trying to attend school after age 25, (end of the draft age), they were holding up his registration by saying that the selective service didn't have him listed and so he had to go over there in person and straighten them out.

This is nothing new. Clinton was setting up draft boards too. Just breathe.

Winston is right that Clinton set up draft boards. However, I'm sure that he realizes how different the climate is now than when Clinton held office -- and it's this fact that causes many of us fear and concern. http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff11052003.html

I'd love to see the draft reinstated. It would get you cowards off the street and doing something usefull!

are the only ones crying to reinstate the draft.

Doesnt it seem kind of funny that a man that took advantage of his parents fiscal wealth to avoid having to go to vietnam, and then on top of that disappeared for 17 months while he was supposed to be on active military duty here in the states, is going to turn around and try to force everyone else to give up their lives for him?

oh and Alfa, what do you think is useful about giving up your life and existence so that american business can colonize third world countries and profit from their resouces? I am just curious.

Iraq doesn't merit a draft. If the US can't take the heat, they need to just get out.

There should definatly not be a draft (unless the U.S. is invaded). If one appeared all of a sudden to help with peacekeeping (which is any military action that is not defense of the homeland) I would hit on the recruter-mind you I'm straight as a board- and wear a dress to come off as a homosexual to avoid fighting. Mind you I do like America though. I believe that it is a truely blessed country with great opportunities for its citizens. But I am not a fighter and unless my city became a battlefield I would rather never touch a gun. Call me a wuss if you want but do not call me unpatriotic and don't tell me to leave. I hate how prowar people scream that anyone who disagres with Bush should leave. First of all its HARD to go from one country to the next and survive. Second I know that disagreeing with Bush is not the same as hating America (It is simply disagreeing with the current leadership). Hard ass conservatives that equate the two usually don't like freedom of speech if it is a liberal talking. Also I hate how prowar people try to shut up protestors by saying "we are already in war. support the troops." This is just an different way of saying "i don't care what you think. I think we should go to war and so I'm going to use the hard working men and women in the military to shut you up. Americans like yourself have too many freedoms like saying things I don't like." Too often in recent American history (vietnam, korea) stupid old white men (read congressmen and the president) are more that happy to send other peoples children to die in wars. We would probably still have a draft if it weren't for the fact the the vietnam draft lottery didn't discriminate and took these politician's sons into war. Then it ended quick. America is great for the freedom to choose. I CHOOSE to be disrespectful to dumass leaders and closeminded elders. I CHOOSE to be a wuss and sit in my. I CHOOSE to appriciate the sacrifices American solders of today and yesterday have made for the world. I CHOOSE have patriotic I want to be. It is choices like these that make America what it is.

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Nobody in politics would try and bring back the draft because they know 3/4's of the US is against it