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The Democrats will not support a draft, regardless of whatever trickery the neocons may be attempting. The people elected our party to improve the situation of a country sick of war. Do you think anyone will honestly hold it against us for NOT using that power to send their kids to the Middle East?

I am in prime drafting age. Were it not for my health (disabled), I'm sure that I'd end up there. Just the same, I know that many people my age - knowing what they do about the administration and the background of the war - simply would not go. They'll end up with jails jam packed with kids, and the people will wake up and realize how wrong things have gone. It's easy for people to ignore the grim truth of our country until their children are taken away to fight. That's when it becomes a whole different ballgame, and the neocons don't want that.

As someone else said here a day or two ago, a draft in this age would be stupid besides. The army of today is not the same army we had decades ago. Modern training procedures are demanding and lengthy, and sending a bunch of raw kids pushed through in a month would not improve anything. To the contrary, it would turn a terrible mess into a disaster. Incompetent and undertrained people, who are very likely mentally and/or physically unfit for serve, are put in the middle of a delicate and dangerously unstable situation.