Bandwagon: from MoveOn.org, the No Iraq Draft online petion thinger

[azurelunatic]

http://www.noiraqdraft.com/impact.php?uid=a1ef1fd2c02e013e335ef98c70584636
Sign the petition, clicky linky. Watch cool animation demonstrate the spread of the bandwagon movement.

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Draft

[p-o-u-n-c-e-r.livejournal.com]

Cool animation, agreed.

But speaking as if a US miilary draft is imminent or likely seems foolish on the face of it. The all volunteer force Clinton used in maintaining Iraqi "containment", in Somalia, in Kosovo, Bosnia, Sudan, etc etc etc -- as well as in standing by in Korea, Germany, UK, Italy, Panama, Japan, Guam, etc even more etc -- started at nearly double the size of the current force Shrub commands. What impediment do the MoveOn.Org organizers envision materializing that prevents recruiters from -- not increasing the size of the military, but merely restoring it to the size of the all-volunteer force of Clinton's first administration?

According to recruiters some 68% of young men of age to serve are ineligible from the very get go. Too fat, too dumb, too uneducated, too much of a security risk, too nearsighted, too whatever. And they only need 1%. If the size of the military were to required to double the recruiters would come after TWO PERCENT of young men -- and perhaps of the thirty percent qualified but unwilling, many would deliberately fail the tests, put on the weight, lie about their political affiliations, and otherwise join and swell the ranks of the majority who're unfit.

Sign the petition, sure. If it makes anybody feel better. But the draft is as much a part of the modern and future American military as the musket.

Re: Draft

[azurelunatic]

An integral part of the modern military, perhaps. You know more about this sort of thing than I do. That still doesn't mean that I, or anyone, has to like it.