Repuke strategy for getting the Democrats to re-instate the Draft...

[Postman]

If the Dems win the House in November there will be a push by the Republicans to re-instate the Draft and blame the Democrats for it's resurrection.

After all, you can't hammer the Repubs during the run-up to November by repeating "stay the course is not a strategy", win the elections in November and not re-enforce the troops in Iraq with a Draft.

If the Dems propose a "strategic redeployment", what the Repubs and their minions in the corporate owned press will do is scream they are "cutting and running"..

The Dems, as a group being the cowards that they are and have shown to be in the past, will not be able to stand up against that kind of full frontal attack of being perceived as "soft on defense" - "soft on terrorism".

They will see a chance to capture the "strong on defense" issue away from the Repubs and re-instate a Draft.

Which could have the effect of splintering the Democratic Party.

[notadmblnd]

1. Both parties are weak

if Dems get control of congress, the first thing for them to do is to put the breaks on funding for the conflict in Iraq, pull back the troops and engage in some serious diplomacy and rebuilding of the country. KBR should be forced to provide jobs to the Iraqi people. Admit our mistake and apologize to the people of the world. I think if we do that along with taking actions to hold the perpetrators of this mess accountable and display holding them accountable openly to the world.. then we might be able to begin salvaging what is left of this country and start at regaining the trust of the rest of the world.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. It's a nice theory but it is erroneously built on the premise that

the GOP will let the Congress slip from under their control. That is a dangerous assumption.

[Dhalgren]

3. I don't think that there is any way in hell that either Party will

advocate the draft. If we were a true democratic republic service should be mandatory, but being a fascist dictatorship in republic clothing, no one in their right mind would agree to serve. No the Democrats will try to end the war and the Republicans will just continue to kill-off the poor. Of course all of this is moot, because the Dictator will not permit his party to lose...

[bryant69]

4. They could try that

But I don't think that's the strategy - for one thing it relies on Democrats getting the house back, which they don't want to happen - and for another it is a little transparent - It's not like the Democrats couldn't turn this around, if they chose to - and their cowardness might not be as big an issue when they are in charge.

Hard to say though.

Bryant
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[TahitiNut]

5. Well, every "true Democrat" realizes it's far, far better ...

... to focus the burdens of military service on "volunteers" - you know, those people who see such service as the only way to obtain citizenship, an education, health care, job training, or just room and board? Yeah, them. "Volunteers." Need more of them? Well, we can just make sure the economy continues to pillage the working poor. We can make sure that the 45,000,000 people without health care coverage just keeps increasing in numbers. After all, them "volunteers" sure need encouragement, right? For the rest, we can just keep peddling the Norman Rockwell Kool-Aid - back-slapping those who, through a sense of "patriotism" (something to sneer at, right?) or sharing a burden step up to fill the gap. After all, it's really convenient to rest on our dissenting buttocks and say "not my war" while some other poor fucker dies - heaven forbid we sink or swim together like a 'real' democracy would.

:eyes:

[warrens]

6. The draft ain't coming back

PARTICULARLY if the Dems get in, but voting to reinstate the draft is political suicide.