Reinstatement of the Draft - my perspective

I am starting to get an eery feeling of deja vu. You see I was draft age in the mid 60's when the Viet Nam War started going strong and young men like myself, some of who were my class-mates, were coming home from war in body bags on a daily basis. That war touched almost everyone in some way or another. For those of us lucky enough to have a college deferment it was just a temporary reprieve. You see we knew very well that our time was coming and it wouldn't be long before Selective Service would come a knockin at our door with greetings, "congratulations on graduating from college, and now welcome to the ranks of 1A immediate service eligible. Yes there were many who tried to extend their college, some looked for medical waivers, some went to the Reserves, some of the braver souls (perhaps foolhardy) enlisted, others dodged to Canada. Families were in turmoil. The whole country was in turmoil. Being drafted into military service to fight in a war 10,000 miles away in some god forsaken jungle was the single unifying issue that brought vocal and passioned protest to the streets. I know, I was in the streets of New York protesting while Police waded through the crowds with billy clubs whacking at the heads of anyone they could hit. It was a very scary and ugly scene.

Let us for the moment fast forward to the spring of 2005. Just like the time I grew up in, we are engaged in a war in a god forsaken place thousands of miles away to fight an indigenous force of which we cannot tell friend from foe, and for a reason we still cannot accept or understand. One difference young men and women are not now being involuntarily conscripted into military service. But lo and behold all sane things must come to an end. And so to complete the insanity that is going on in Iraq, we will soon see a reinstatement of the military draft. Forget what the lying liars in Washington say, anyone with half a brain can figure it out. We do not have enough fighting personnel to continue combat operations in Iraq for much longer. We have already back door drafted way too many Reservists whose time can no longer be extended without a huge political price.

What will this draft look like? Well, I can tell you one thing, it won't look like what I experienced in the 60s. This time both men and women will be called to service, and it will be much more balanced in its selection process. I doubt you see the shenanigans the likes of which allowed many of our Warlike Necon Leaders and opportunity to skip out of service in Viet Nam.

And how will Americans react. The same damn way we did back then. They will spill their blood in the streets screaming at the top of their lungs for sanity and reason and an end to hostility and senseless killing of our young men and women. Yes all the flag waving patriots who wrap themselves in the flag today, when confronted with their kids or grandkids being drafted to fight a war for bullshit reasons will somehow gain a conscience. You just wait and see. I tell you I see it coming deja vu 1966.

However, the crazy's who are now running this country know full well that reinstating the draft is a prescription for outright revolt. So once again they will have a trick up there sleeve. It is called martial law. It first starts with another terrorist attack that will make 9-11 look like "Ted Mack's Amateur Hour". After all if you want to rally the troops, you have to give them a cause to rally around. That cause is ever present and on-going "War on Terrorism" So the battle lines will be drawn, the stakes will be high, and you will see civil unrest the likes of which this country has never seen, including Viet Nam. When will this happen? If Scott Ritter's prognostications are valid (and he seems to be one of the few who always gets it right), I would say in June. For it is this date in time that "the crazys" have set for their next pre-emptive military foray -Iran.

While one part of me is pained by the thought of reinstating the draft, another part of me thinks that it may just be the wake up call that Americans need to jolt them off their asses and out into the streets. You see there is way more of us than there are of them. They know it and they fear it. But as long as they can control our thoughts through a corrupted media, and lacking any urgent motivation, average Americans will do just what they are doing now...NOTHING. The draft will change it all. But it will be a very costly and painful period of change. We in the activist community need to be prepared to mobilize like we have never done before, because this time we will have followers and we will have a unified message. Despite what they will, the Neocon Crazy's won't be able to suppress it. They underestimate its power just like they underestimated the will of Iraqis to resist our occupation of their land. Their hubris and arrogance will finally be their downfall. Sadly many Americans lives will be lost in their undoing. God Bless us All!

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that the mexican border problem will lend to the catastrophe that ** needs?