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Quote by: James The main reason a draft is needed when it is is the liberal media and all the crazies like Cindy Sheehan who think that we can all stand holding hands and sing kumbaya with the Iraqis and other people.
It's so sad that today some people are too afraid to stand up and possibly die for their country, their freedom, and their families' freedom. Brave American men have done it for over two centuries--what if they had said that it's "not their war"? We'd be speaking German, Japanese, or Spanish by now.
*whew* It's tough being an angry conservative these days |
{{Sigh}} Certainly tough being a clueless one. Did you think we'd all end up speaking Iraqi? Has it yet dawned on you that Iraq was never a threat to us or your beloved freedoms for which brave Americans needed to die? That Cindy Sheehan is simply the canary in the coal mine warning us that the majority of Americans have lost confidence in the justification for this endless conflict or the Bush administration's handling of it?
Yes, sometimes we need to wage war. Other times we need to know when NOT to wage war, but apparently 'ol
"Bring 'em on, Dead or Alive" Dubya doesn't know the difference. As I've stated, I supported Desert Storm from the gitgo. I supported the intervention in Somolia, although it turned out to be a demonstration of the limits of military superpower. I supported the intervention in the Balkans and I supported Bush's invasion of Afghanistan. In other words, I'm not a knee-jerk Peacenik.
But I opposed the war in Iraq from day one because it was a really BAD IDEA
militarily, an invitation to quagmire that history has shown we could never hope to win and now can't get out of, which will sap our military indefinitely as long as we stay. And now, 2 and a half years into Bush's debacle, the American people are finally figuring out what we, Bush's CIA and State Dept intel, his senior military, and his own father were warning all along.... that we can't pin our military down in the heart of Muslim darkness, surrounded on three sides by hostile populations who have developed terrorism to an artform, where the enemy is unidentifiable, nowhere and everywhere, and actually think we're going to win simply because we're a SuperPower raised on John Wayne and Rambo movies.
And to make matters vastly worse, the very reasons for getting into this war have been found to have been totally bogus... as bad as Saddam was, we now know that Bush was dead wrong, that Hussein was a threat to no one but his own people, with no WMD and no connection to the people who attacked us on 9/11.
And THAT'S where the draft question becomes an issue... in a war which 60% of Americans now believe was a mistake yet still feel we have to keep plugging away, losing young soldiers day after day after day, we will have to continue finding new soldiers to continue maintaining that mistake. Where do those new soldiers come from? Because young men and women, and the families of young men and women, willing to die for a stupid mistake are already becoming fewer and farther between.
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