Bush War Adviser Says Draft Worth a Look

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8QUECGG1&show_article=1

Bush War Adviser Says Draft Worth a Look

Aug 10 06:25 PM US/Eastern
By RICHARD LARDNER



WASHINGTON (AP) - Frequent tours for U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan have stressed the all-volunteer force and made it worth considering a return to a military draft, President Bush's new war adviser said Friday.

"I think it makes sense to certainly consider it," Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute said in an interview with National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

"And I can tell you, this has always been an option on the table. But ultimately, this is a policy matter between meeting the demands for the nation's security by one means or another," Lute added in his first interview since he was confirmed by the Senate in June.

President Nixon abolished the draft in 1973. Restoring it, Lute said, would be a "major policy shift" and Bush has made it clear that he doesn't think it's necessary.

The repeated deployments affect not only the troops but their families, who can influence whether a service member decides to stay in the military, Lute said.

"There's both a personal dimension of this, where this kind of stress plays out across dinner tables and in living room conversations within these families," he said. "And ultimately, the health of the all- volunteer force is going to rest on those sorts of personal family decisions."

The military conducted a draft during the Civil War and both world wars and between 1948 and 1973. The Selective Service System, re- established in 1980, maintains a registry of 18-year-old men. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., has called for reinstating the draft as a way to end the Iraq war. Bush picked Lute in mid-May as a deputy national security adviser with responsibility for ensuring efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan are coordinated with policymakers in Washington. Lute, an active-duty general, was chosen after several retired generals turned down the job.

 

Its about time they enacted one. I support it 100%.

Know why? Because it will finally cut the throats of the neocons and their backers.

I'm a firm believer in a horrible end rather than an endless horror.

Its time to make people angry so we can end this mess.



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More employment is a good thing. More ppl can make some kind of money. If the darft comes it'll open up more available job oppurtunities here in the U.S. for us who can stay free from the draft.

 

I don't see it happening under a republican government, only because they want to protect their offspring.

 

Does it really make any difference whether it's Republican or Democrat? Either way, the sons and daughters of the wealthy and powerful will never see war.

 

I doubt Chelsea faces the draft.

 

How many presidential candidates do have draftable age children or grandchildren. I did a google...couldn't find any useful information. Something voters should be familiar with I think. We know Romney's kids think they are doing their civic duty by promoting their father's canidacy.

 

I really love how easily you guys are manipulated by the media.

Try reading the original interview here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12688693

He's not calling for the draft, in fact he says an all volunteer force is "serving us exceptionally well" and is "viable in the long run".

But Breitbart only gives you the sensationalist part of the story, i.e. Bush administration official says the word "draft", so they can get lots of web hits. It works.

This topic belongs in the dustbin with all the other scaremongering draft stories. Or should I say recycling bin? I'm sure we'll see the same story in another six months.

 

It's not going to happen under this administration, but if we continue to rely on our military in the manner we are doing currently, and the popular opinion contines the way it is now. If young people don't enlist or join the national guard, it will be a done deal, or the wars will have to be closed down. Like old hippies like to say...You can't hold a war if no one comes., especially if it's based on people volunteering to take part.

 

Who in the hell is this pepik guy?Some spook assigned to this site.?One of roves little operatives about 160 steps below the top?The fuck do these people come from?

 

Not to mention they now allow over 40s to enlist, and accept convicted convicts. In my day the enlistment age ended at 32 and no one with an arrest record that included a felonly could enlist. Seems the bars been lowered.

 

In any forum I've ever belonged to, if you mention either neocons or zionists, they show up to balance the argument.

They may be just regular Joe's who support that side of the story, but I've personally encountered people from AIPAC who haunt politcal forums to do their version of damage control.

They absolutely cannot tolerate dissent from the programming they've spent decades in building up to the American public. And as the US feeds their bank account, they can't afford to be seen for what they are. Just another group trying to take over the world.

The Iraq war has their stink all over it.



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Taking the high road there Skip?

Have a look. YOU got conned by a Breitbart article. >I< went back and read the orginal, source material and got the story RIGHT. Every other time the draft came up and I slagged it off as fearmongering, and I WAS RIGHT EVERY TIME. I was right then, I'm right now. What does that have to do with "deny distory, distract, derail"? I'm on topic, and I've done my research. Is there a rule against being right?

 

Hope you are right Pepik, but fear it's only a matter or time.

 

War advisers cant re-institute the draft.

Its up to congress to pass a law then the president signing it.
Last time it went to vote it lost 402-2.

 

"Congress" should be hung from the telephones poles up and down Pennsylvania avenue for allowing this war to begin with.

They don't represent us anymore.


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