Reply #90: I said if we MUST have a draft.

[Clark Can WIN]

As I said to start with my feelings are complicated.

1. I think it's coming no matter how I feel about it. There is one universal message coming out of the Middle East right now. More troops needed.

2. Bush is not about to back down on this.

3. I think more privledged and middle class would be forced to serve this time (not all of course, I am not an idiot) because the outcry would be too intense. Every vietnam vet in the country would be on television decrying the practice. There would be a concerted effort to correct this error of the past simply because of the sesitivity of the issue as it relates to the Bushies and all their defferments like Cheney's "other priorities".

4. I don't want the draft but I didn't want the damn war either. I don't want mostly poor kids dying in Bushes war because they had poor choices. I don't want ANYBODY dying in Bushes war. I want whatever gets them home the fastest. I happen to believe a few lilly white varsity quarterbacks getting sent to Iraq may help every mothers son get a ticket home. I just want them home.