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I read some time ago that Rangle's idea was that if every mother and dad thought their kids were all subject to the draft, they would immediately vote against anyone who had anything to do with the Iraq war.

In other words, get Bush and Rummy.

But there is a real catch to this.

The dims will cut the military budget.

So we draft 3 million or so hungry kids that all have to be sheltered and clothed....who is going to pay for it?

The dims sure are not.

As for compulsory service, every number that has been published shows the re-up rate is the highest it has ever been.

As for everyone doing something in the way of public service: Fine. Move to one of those country's where every so often the soldiers round you up for a road building project.

They call that socialism and communism.

We are supposed to be the party of less government, smaller government and less spending.

How does "compulsory" fit into any of the above?

Much smarter if you need more people to raise the benefits, whether that is pay, zero interest home loans to the returning service person or whatever.

One more point. In all previous wars, what we needed was bodies. What amounted to cannon fodder.

Today we need really smart people who want to make if not a career, at least a second career out of the military. With all due respects to the great people in our history, it takes more to fight today that the ability to carry an M-1 and look down a set of iron sights.

The problem today is not with the young people that sign up. The problem is with the people like Kennedy, Kerry, Murtha, etc.

You can not say that you are a conservative, for smaller government, less spending and in the same breath say that you will put every single 18 year old into government service for two years.

How many 18 year olds do we have today?

The Census says that our birth rate is 14.4 per 1,000. Male and female.

Quick and dirty math looks like 4,200,000 born each year.

So ignore the death rate and guess that 85% are able to pass the physical to do something even if not in the military, and you end up with 3,570,000 EACH and EVERY year that must be given a physical, and then fed and clothed, furnished with whatever equipment they need to train or do their socialist thing...

And the dims are going to pay for that??

And that is small government?

It will never fly.