Draft Comes Back? Let's hope not!

Originally Posted by Dekoa

I think this is bullshit and I hope that we can get Bush out of office before this actually happens.

Originally Posted by TFA

President Nixon abolished the draft in 1973. Restoring it, Lute said, would be a "major policy shift" and Bush has made it clear that he doesn't think it's necessary.
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Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., has called for reinstating the draft as a way to end the Iraq war.

Of all the things Bush can be blamed for and accused of, trying to reinstate the draft isn't one of them.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Bradylama

Probably because conscripted soldiers are only useful as cannon fodder.

History, oddly enough, dictates otherwise.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Bradylama

It's easier when you're fighting Great Patriotic wars.

Armies aren't undone by how the soldiers in them were brought into them. If the idea that "conscript soldiers are only useful as cannon fodder" were true, the vaunted Prussian and German military systems would have never been vaunted and Israel would have been wiped off the map long ago.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.