Why Don't We Feel a DRAFT

Other than Charles Rangel, and that was quite a while ago...before the presidential campaigns got going...has anyone mentioned a draft...except recently, perhaps, the US News and World Report...and that was buried in a piece on the US Soldiers in Iraq. It was interesting to note that the soldiers interviewed actually were against a draft. They did not want the guy next to them to be someone who did not want to be there. Certainly I can understand the argument.

Yet, these guys have been sent over time and time again, as units, and have had inadequate time to refit during the R&R at home. How long can this country do this to our armed forces?
Our volunteer force is truly a professional and patriotic force. The original mission after 9/11 in Afghanistan was a job they were well prepared for and executed with great skill.

But the moment we set foot in Iraq, this administration...this government, this country, betrayed them. Invasion and occupation are not the missions of volunteer forces. The Reserves and the National Guard are not forces that should be used in this manner. Stripping the Air Force, the Navy, and the Coast Guard to supplement these forces is a gross misuse of those branches of the service. Paying billions of dollars for mercenaries...that is what these "contractors" actually are, is a gross misuse of our national treasury. Our government has created a farce war in order to divert money from the taxpayer into the hands of some privileged few.

If there was a draft, the people of this country might just begin to have an inkling that they have been totally betrayed by our leadership. That inkling may happen yet. At this time, our armed forces are totally incapable of meeting another major threat in the world today. The next president, be it McCain, Obama, Clinton, or another, will be facing a period of great disasters, disasters set in motion over the last few decades and especially over the last few years.

There has not been any real debate or action to have forces prepared to meet this almost inevitable major threat by conventional force. That may leave us with no alternative but nuclear! Not an utterance from Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gates, or any of the current administration. Not an utterance from Obama, Clinton, McCain, or any of the other previously aspiring presidential candidates. Not an utterance for General Petraeus or any other of our present or former military leaders. WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!?!

With food riots breaking out around the world...with the polar caps melting and the Arctic countries staking their claims to resources...with the dollar plunging and commodities of all types going through the roof...THE SHIT IS GOING TO HIT THE FAN...and it won't be from the "terrorists"!!

It is beginning to matter little who gets in during this election cycle. THEY'RE IN CAHOOTS. WAKE UP PEOPLE; OUR GOVERNMENT HAS FAILED US!!!!