WASHINGTON (AFP) - A senior Republican lawmaker said that deteriorating security in Iraq (news - web sites) may force the United States to reintroduce the military draft.
"There's not an American ... that doesn't understand what we are engaged in today and what the prospects are for the future," Senator Chuck Hagel told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on post-occupation Iraq.
"Why shouldn't we ask all of our citizens to bear some responsibility and pay some price?" Hagel said, arguing that restoring compulsory military service would force "our citizens to understand the intensity and depth of challenges we face."
Senator Hagel is a man who served in Vietnam. He stuck up for Kerry, along with John McCain, when the ChickenHawk NeoCon sludgemasters tried to paint him as weak on defense. Hagel also opposed this war (I think) and he's taken several potshots at creeps like Richard Perle.
Since Bush got us into this mess, why not draft his daughters? Heck, lets draft Perle, Wolfowitz, Limbaugh, Feith, Wurmser, Ledeen, the entire staff of the American Enterprise Institute, Project for a New American Century and any other person who ranted and raved for this war beyond reason.
Lets send all the kids of all the NeoCons so that they can all see how horrible Bush's insane war really is.
If Bush wants to lose almost all the college vote, go ahead, reinstate the draft. While your'e at it, declare war on Syria, Iran, and North Korea. I'm sure the parents of prospective draftees would love you starting more wars. If you want to divide the country like in Vietnam, go ahead and lose the election by reinstating the draft before the election