Actions have consequences. Certainly the 2004 and 2006 elections proved that. And now we are starting to see how Bush's Iraq war decisions, or lack thereof, really, are having their consequences as well. Casualties are way up. Up to invasion levels, in fact. And recruiting is down. So that means... bringing back the draft.
This statement from a former senior Pentagon official:
“If the United States is going to have a significant component of its ground forces in Iraq over the next five, 10, 15 or 30 years, then the responsible course is for the president and those supporting this open-ended and escalated presence in Iraq to call for reinstating the draft.”
And all the actions of the administration (not the words so much) lead us to believe that they have a much longer term mindset about Iraq.
Despite Fox News' rosy talk, things are not going well over there. There are mass Iraqi casualties every day. As I say, our troops are getting killed at numbers that equal those from the opening days of the offensive. And the politicians in Iraq are squandering the precious breathing room Rice begged the American populace for with the usual pie in the sky shenanigans.
The bellicose rhetoric from the right is sounding more shrill and less connected with reality than ever. The nonsense about fighting them over there is as hollow as ever. And Bush doesn't have the bully pulpit he thinks he does when it comes to war funding. He may actually lose this fight against congress.
Fortunately the American people are waking up to the fact that we are in another quagmire and will likely make the right choice in 2008 to get us out of there.
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