Posted on 08/10/2007 4:12:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Bad idea.
Note to the bashers: I enlisted in the Navy in 1990.
The draft made it too easy for LBJ to ratchet up a war we should never have been in.
This guy clearly isn’t a politician. He shouldn’t have suggested that it was even being considered. The MSM vultures and the Dems will go after this like fresh meat.
Not only do we want the best, brightest and most qualified, but the military needs those who really want to serve and defend the US. I wouldn’t want a moron watching my back in a crisis.
I think it’s a good idea. Right now you’ve got the luxury of training them thoroughly. Later we may very well be in too much of a hurry for that. We need a bigger military. The answer to a stretched out force is not to back off from our obligations, but to build up what we need.
I think we’re re-activating 3-4 divisions at Ft. Bragg, so that’s a good thing.
Memo to Rangel: Soldiers exist to fight, not to protest.
Why do you say we should have never been in Vietnam? Should we leave the S. Koreans to the same fate we left the Vietnamese? The Taiwanese? The Iraqis?
You see the problems we had with just one Beauchamp,, now imagine hundreds of them.
Because of the technology used in a lot of the services now, it would take too much time and effort to train some draftee—who didn’t want to be there and would fight every step of the way.
Bad idea.
The only time a draft would be useful is if we were engaged in a land battle in Asia. And what idiot would do that.
With Hillary tying to take the reigns, a draft would be a bad idea. ............. With Hillary, it’s going to be a recruiter’s nightmare. Then again, we may not need anymore troops since they’ll be withdrawn from everywhere.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident was a complete fabrication. Why should we have been there? The only thing accomplished was obscene profits for the military industrial complex, and 58,000 killed. The end result was the same as if we had never been there.
Lute knew going in he was to be thrown under the bus at the first moment necessary by the Bush inner circle.
The guy is brilliant for coming out with this, it increases his post-retirement speaking fee value considerably, and makes him much much more visible going into the ‘08 election season, one which he is absolutely certain he will be a working as a civilian well before the general election.
Lute is thinking outside the box, he’s probably hoping he gets fired for discussing bringing back the draft, so he doesn’t become the whipping boy for some worse situation thatwas actually outside his control.
“Because of the technology used in a lot of the services now, it would take too much time and effort to train some drafteewho didnt want to be there and would fight every step of the way.”
Yeah, you got that right, just like they did in WWI WWII and Korea?
Hillary would insure our troops end up dead.
Warrior Queen Hillary, even the thought of it makes me gag.
True, those who are in the military against their will don't make good soldiers, I witnessed that first hand.
First question: Why give an interview to NPR? Second question: Didn't Democrats pull this from their playbook during a previous election?
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