Rangel once again proposes a new draft bill (hell no we won't go?)

I doubt this would ever get seriously considered, and it does make you wonder how people like him get voted into office in the first place.

My argument is that any talks of a draft would prove to be very unpopular, not just with politicians, but with the people as well. The only exception would probably be if another World War broke out, and Americans, or worse, American service members get killed (which is probably the only real reason why there are still US troops in South Korea, so that if North Korea attacks, it'll be another "Pearl Harbor". And I highly doubt many Americans would be against flattening out North Korea when they start seeing images of dead Americans from NK agression).

Chances are also good that rich, affluent members of society are still going to somehow manage to get their kids from getting drafted. When you have a lot of influence and/or money, you can get a lot of things done, ethical or not (judging from all those scandals). Failling that, they'll probably pull strings to ensure their kids get comfy, non-combat positions in the military (such as managing an office in a stateside base), so that the bulk of the fighting will still be largely middle and lower class people. And you can bet the media in this day and age will paint just about any conflict as a "Rich man's war, but poor man's fight", which will further tick off lower class Americans (wasn't that one of the complaints about the draft for Vietnam? And the American Civil War too if I recall).

And on top of that, any politicians who support a draft will likely not get re-elected come next election (particularly if the conflict requiring a draft goes sour quickly, because their opponents will rail against them using "OMG that guy supported this draft! Vote for the new guy, he doesn't support it and he'll bring our boys home!"), so it's not likely that any sane politicians would risk their political neck to support this.

Guess they'd better hurry up and finish that border fence, cause soon it'll keep Americans from running to Mexico to avoid the draft this time lol (forget about Canada, cause they have an agreement to send those guys back now. But Mexico, I'm sure they'd welcome rich Americans coming into their country and taking their money to ensure that the US won't find them).

Again, a conflict short of something on the scale of World War 2 is probably not going to interest Americans enough to support a draft (heck, I'm starting to think that if Japan had simply taken the islands they wanted, without launching the Pearl Harbor attack first, most Americans probably wouldn't of cared about a conflict taking place thousands of miles away from their home). If anything they'd tell the current govt. officials to pull out of Iraq sooner if things are going bad (and those extremists killing people aren't making it go any faster. If they're going to attack, they should wait till after the coalition troops pull out, not while they're still there. Or better yet, develop a new, cheap, and efficient fuel that could replace oil, and then maintain a monopoly on that).

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