05-19-2004, 12:40 PM
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Originally posted by Centurion
In today's newspaper article/editorial by Mary McGregor, she pointed out that while most of Capitol Hill will not speak the dreaded "D" word, the fact that the US is bogged down in Iraq and are now re-assessing how longer we'll have to stay there is definitely making the "D" word much more active in discussions among legislators.
We just had to move 4,000 troops from South Korea to MAINTAIN current levels in Iraq.
There are so many scenarios where things could head south for the US that could put us in a very troubling situation:
1)The current Iraqi conflict gains strength and becomes larger.
2)North Korea acts up BIG TIME.
3) ANOTHER hot spot breaks out in Africa, or South America, or Asia, or even again in the Middle East.
4)ANOTHER major terrorist attacks shows we are not doing the job going after the terrorists..thus...the need for more troops overseas.
Seeing that we are stretched so thin now..where will the manpower come from any of the above scenarios? We just about used up our "useable" reserves here in the states.
I would say there is an 80% chance of re-instatment of the draft if Bush is re-elected (and decides to stay in Iraq). He ain't running for office again, so he won't give a fuck.
If Kerry is elected, I think it will be a 50-50 chance of the draft returning IF he decides to keep us in Iraq at current levels for more than a year or so.
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hahahaha, what a joke. So if kerry is elected all the bad scenarios that you outline might happen magically disappear. 
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