SHOULD YOU BE AFRAID OF BEING DRAFTED TO FIGHT IN IRAQ WAR?

I stumbled across this article written by Wilkes Barre, Times Leader and I was pretty amazed at what he had to say. Some of the point she made in the article, I simply didn't know and to be honest were a bit scary.

Enjoy......

LIKE BEING WAR CRITIC? THANK A SOLDIER

Nobody owes a greater debt of gratitude to the United States soldiers currently serving in Iraq than the people who oppose the war itself.
Nobody.
Since the founding of this country, major wars have meant major drafts. The state militias conscripted soldiers in the Revolutionary War, although draftees could escape service by paying a fee or paying a substitute to go for them.
In the Civil War, both sides relied heavily on the draft, and in New York bloody riots broke out because of it.
We maintain a vision of men rushing off gladly to fight the Kaiser during World War I, but 72 percent of those who did were drafted.
Likewise the ``Greatest Generation'' of World War II. Of the 16 million American men who served, about 10 million didn't call Uncle Sam, they waited for Uncle Sam to call them. Ditto Korea and Vietnam, until the last Americans were drafted on Jan. 27, 1973.
The only two major wars fought in the history of the United States, and possibly the history of the world, without conscription, are Desert Storm in 1991 and Operation Iraqi Freedom right now.
That means that everyone who opposes the military on general principles is at home. That means that everybody who deplores the use of violence, in all cases, to solve problems, is at home. And, for the most part, it means that people who oppose the war in Iraq, and their children and their husbands, are at home.
Everyone here volunteered, in general, to follow the orders of the president and his generals, and to be used as the government saw fit. Pretty much no one is going to have to run to Canada to avoid service.
There have been and will be a few people seeking conscientious objector status, but whether they get it or not, they are in a pickle of their own devising. Those who find these kinds of situations abhorrent are, for the first time in history, able to be feel that way safely in the comfort of their own den, without the threat of jail, loss of citizenship or even loss of prestige.

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