Article in today's News & Observer finally notices the buzz among young people about the coming D-R-A-F-T, given El Presidente's pre-emptive doctrine of warfare and the prominence of neoconservatives in his administration.
Now they're denying it as fast as ever they can ... which probably ain't quite fast enough.
"We already have a draft -- a back-door draft," Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, a Korean War veteran and author of House legislation to restart the draft, said Tuesday. Rangel's office said the Pentagon is already "drafting" men for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan by ordering reservists to active duty and extending tours of those in the combat zone.
A career military man said to me in Virginia last weekend that you can't rely on 30-year-olds in combat -- which is the age bracket of a lot of these poor reservists pushed into this disastrous Iraqi battle -- that the military knows, and El Presidente knows, and certainly every thinking American knows that WE WILL NEED 20-YEAR-OLDS to continue this battle.
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