Feeling a Draft

Senator says US may need compulsory service to boost Iraq force

"Why shouldn't we ask all of our citizens to bear some responsibility and pay some price?" Hagel said

Because the people who really need to bear the responsibility and pay the price are the Chickenhawks who got us into this mess. The Bush Crime Syndicate needs to pay the price, not American citizens who, for the most part, didn't want this war.

(Hagel argued) that restoring compulsory military service would force "our citizens to understand the intensity and depth of challenges we face."

Then send the Bush Administration. They're the ones who don't seem to understand the intensity and depth of "challenges" (in other words, the thousands of innocent Iraqis and hundreds of U.S. troops who are dying) in Iraq.

The Nebraska Republican added that a draft, which was ended in the early 1970s, would spread the burden of military service in Iraq more equitably among various social strata.

Oh, he thinks so, does he? Is he proposing that all the loopholes that the Sons of Privelege used throughout Vietnam be outlawed? Because if not, all the draft will do is force more lower- and middle-class citizens into fighting a war that they don't want.

Meanwhile, witnesses at the hearing, including academics and former US officials, expressed concern about ongoing flareups of violence in Iraq this month -- the bloodiest yet for US troops.

So, this month is the bloodiest -- as was last month, and the month before, and the month before that. It just keeps getting worse.