The forced recall of 3,500 Marines is a clarion call
warning to all Americans, and along with other distortions of deployment
practices, is now, in effect, a form of reviving the draft.
Listening to the President, Vice President Cheney,
the various neoconservative policy pushers, their vision appears to be
a vision of endless and permanent world war, with expanding and ever
more dangerous fields of combat, when we do not even have the troops
strength to meet our commitments today.
Having been involved in intelligence
and military matters for more than two decades, this much is clear:
we cannot sustain our commitments today; with any additional wars to
fight, we will be left with only two choices: either inadequate forces
creating more Iraqs, or adequate forces that can only be maintained
through a revival of the draft, no matter what it is called. That is
the fact.
When
these neoconservative voices rush to the airwaves to proclaim the
wars they would like (others) to fight, Democrats, Republicans and
all in
the media should ask [INCLUDING
THOSE RUNNUNG FOR PRESIDENT]:
If
you want war with Iran, where will you get the troops, and will
you bring back the draft?
If
you want war with Syria, where will you get the troops, and will you
bring back the draft?
If
you want war with North Korea, where will you get the troops, and will
you bring back the draft?
It is high time and long overdue that the United States
resumes its role of world diplomatic and political leadership and brings
in people of world-wide credibility and stature to at least test the
waters for game-changing diplomacy.
For
those who prefer the course of war, we must all ask, on every occasion:
for the wars you would like to fight, where will you get the troops,
and are you prepared to bring back the draft?
Brent Budowsky was an aide to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen
on intelligence issues, and served as Legislative Director to Rep. Bill
Alexander when he was Chief Deputy Whip of the House Democratic Leadership.
Budowsky can be reached at brentbbi@webtv.net
Source: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/082306a.html
President justifies war to parents
of dead:
http://www.flyingsnail.com/Dahbud/2deadday.html
For years I have attempted to keep
these pages away from politics, sex, or religion because everybody
who arrived here used a different path, and these subjects inevitably
lead to unresolved fights.
Despite different paths, we have arrived
here, at this place, in cyberspace, and there is something that needs
to be said.
If a [Chickenhawk] Bush Administration
and Congress continue abusing our military [Setting up our military
as sitting ducks in Iraq and over extending them beyond exhaustion.] another
Draft will need to be reestablished.
The current administration, which is
facing WAR CRIMES, knows this and remembers what happened [Mass Protests]
during Vietnam when our children were sent into another illegal,
false flag [Gulf of Tonkin] war by another LAME Secretary of Defense
[McNamara] who admitted later, 'He could have ended the Vietnam War/Conflict
years earlier saving millions of lives.'
The current administration, headed
by Karl Rove, would like this DRAFT to begin under a 'Democrat watch'
and appear to be doing whatever they can, including abusing our troops,
to dig the United States deeper into an evil NEOCON war on life...
and prolong it beyond 2008.
If we as a Nation consider bringing
our Military home NOW, perhaps a DRAFT can be prevented in the future.
Anti-war
activists fear revival of selective service
By Mike Billington
The Delaware News Journal
02/17/2005
There may come a day when Uncle
Sam wants Wayne Flenniken for the U.S. Army.
In many ways, he's an ideal candidate
for military service. At 15, he already has finished high school
and is enrolled at Delaware Technical & Community College studying
Spanish and English. There is a problem, however. Wayne doesn't
want any part of Uncle Sam's Army - or anyone else's, for that
matter.
"I don't believe in war and I don't
like the military in any way, shape or form," he said. "I don't
think anyone should be forced to die prematurely."
That's why he went to a draft resistance
training session Friday in his hometown of Newark. It's why Wayne
has begun building his case as a conscientious objector.
The United States no longer has a
military draft and hasn't since 1973, when it converted to an all-volunteer
military.
But some anti-war activists say it's
only a matter of time before the Bush administration and the Republican-controlled
Congress bring it back. Meanwhile, conservatives and moderates
outside the administration have taken a hard look at America's
military commitments and are urging Congress to beef up the Army
and Marines.
Many elected officials say there
is no way the draft will be brought back any time soon.
"Our current all-volunteer force
is highly effective, well-trained, well-disciplined and capable
of handling our global and national security commitments," said
Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del. "[Defense] Secretary [Donald] Rumsfeld
and the Joint Chiefs of Staff have continuously stated their opposition
to reviving the draft and the House of Representatives overwhelmingly
rejected such a proposal last year. I personally oppose it."
Others aren't so certain. - The
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