Reply #51: I don't. I really don't.

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I think that they are making tentative plans to pull out of Iraq now. There are whispers of it, in fact, there was concern on this very forum that the Republicans would get out and claim credit for it, with the full aid of the media of course. That seems very realistic to me. I am of the opinion that the next president (with two exceptions from the current crop), whether Republican or Democrat, will withdraw from Iraq -- if for nothing else than for political necessity. And it's the Republican whispers of withdrawal that make me fear for the Iran aspect. They'd use the same soldiers who just came out of Iraq. It'd be an absolute slaughter, of course, but I still don't see a draft. By the time a draft is a possibility, I think we'd have far worse things to worry about, because I think there'd be another attack and the Blackwater would be deployed around the country. Compulsory military service would be part of a fascist state, but I don't think it would be implemented until we were already seriously screwed. By that time, the draft itself would be almost an afterthought.