Do you feel a military draft?

Here’s to all the draft resisters who will fight for sanity
When they march them off to prison in this land of liberty
Heed the threat and awesome power of the mighty Pentagon
Which is wasting precious millions on the toys of Washington

— Steppenwolf

Is there going to be a military draft to support Bush’s unconstitutional Iraq War? Will we have student protesters marching through the streets, demanding an end to the draft? Will student protesters be shot down, as they were at Kent State in 1970?

One of Bush’s top military advisors said we should think about a draft. AP reports:

“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.

The generalissimo is Bush’s new “War Czar” — as if we didn’t already have a Secretary of Defense and a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to run the military and advise the president.

Apparently not being considered is ending the Iraq war, which would mean a foolish, murderous policy would be over, America would become safer, the troops would come home, and there would be no need at all for a draft.

But I don’t think a draft is likely. Enough of us remember how it ripped America apart in the 1960s. The Democratic Congress includes some former anti-war activists, such as Sen. Hillary. And Americans just aren’t going to put up with Bush’s absurd war much longer. In any case, Americans certainly wouldn’t put up with a draft.

The general’s blabbing reflects more the top brass’ descent into unreality than a serious attempt to bring back the draft.

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