This is all well and good, but Vietnam was a long time ago. There won't be another draft. Jerry's dead. Please.

The American military machine today is not only unstoppable, but virtually untouchable. Far more soldiers died from accidents and friendly fire in the last 2 invasions (Iraq and Afghanistan), than from enemy fire.

I know that the draft talk was started by a Democratic congressman, but the White House WANTS us to worry about this silly ghost of a threat as just another thing to divert attention from the real issues.

Washington, using money they took from us, is about to invade a comparably helpless sovereign nation under a total pretense (AGAIN!).

Iraq is violating UN orders? The US violates UN orders all the time! Hell, many UN orders are a violation of national sovereignty and SHOULD be ignored anyway.

Iraq *may* have weapons of mass destruction? Washington is ARMED TO THE TEETH with them, and has them deployed all over the freaking planet, AND HAS USED THEM!

Iraq?! Iraq is nothing militarily. Sure, they invaded Kuwait.. because Iraq caught Kuwait cross-drilling into Iraqi oil fields and stealing oil! And even then only after Iraq asked America what it would do, and our own State Dept told them "We take no position on disputes between Arabic nations." i.e. go for it, we won't stop you. AND THEN THEY DID! WTF?

And what about all that talk of "using violence to achieve a political goal is terrorism"? HELLO, what do you think "regime change" is? By its own definition, the coming US invasion of Iraq is terrorism.

Washington is executing a global crime spree right now, and every crime it commits is in part to divert attention from the fallout and aftermath of the last crime they committed.

Is anyone talking about the 3,000 Afghan civilians who were killed by Washington's military? We kept hearing about the 3,000 New Yorkers, but when Washington does it to someone (someone who wasn't even involved!) - again with the double standards!

Yeah yeah, "harboring terrorists". No trial, no evidence shown, just empty accusations, a media machine complicit in whipping up war hysteria, and decimation of a HELPLESS 3rd world country.

Does this mean that when the CIA's terrorist agents come back to hide in the safety of America after orchestrating death and destruction in, say, Columbia, that Columbia is now justified in bombing the USA for "harboring terrorists"? And they dont even have to show evidence?

There's just no reasoning with madmen, is there. Even when those madmen are the American civilian population.

No no, don't think about any of this. Those are all issues where OTHER people get hurt. Here, let's make you feel personally threatened with nonsense about another draft, so you'll forget all about what Washington is doing around the globe.. in our name.. with our money.. inviting further retalliation against us... you know, retalliation like 9/11.

Hussein is evil, but at least he's harmless compared to Bush's evil. And through taxation we're all being used as slave labor to fuel Bush's war machine.

Except of course for King George's willing supporters. Soulless backstabbing sellout minions of the king, that lot.

Who, granted, are no better than Clinton's willing supporters during the bombing of Kosovo. The hands of most Americans, Republican and Democrat, are blood stained.

But I digress.

-Van