If there was no Blackwater USA would the United States need to implement a draft?

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Possible Given how badly this Administration has beat up the military and botched the war, it's hard to see how they could fight it without mercenaries. They'd certainly either have to find a new source of cannon fodder or, God forbid, not start wars like this in the first place. The problem with the draft, of course, is that it's very hard to conscript unwilling civilians to fight in a stupid, unnecessary war.

The current bunch haven't forgotten the lesson of Viet Nam and they know that the draft was one of the driving forces behind the anti-war movement that brought Johnson and Nixon down. Trying to force kids to fight in the Republican's oil wars would surely generate a resistance movement that would make Viet Nam look like a Sunday School picnic. I'm sure they would like a draft and have considered it all along, but the political risk is simply too great..as long as they can use tax dollars to buy mercenaries to do the job..

Not at all Outsourcing the military (i.e. , hiring mercenaries) is not about avoiding the draft. It is pure, cynical greed, as is much of the behavior of the Bush administration.

They got elected as a morality alternative, and stayed elected as a defense of america alternative, but they were never hidden about their agenda. They have been pretty clear that they want to gut public services and outsource government as much as they possibly can. This has always been their ideological perspective.. It doesn't take half a brain to put two and two together, of course.

Why do they want to outsource government? To help their friends, of course. To help their friends make oodles of money.

I mean, we liberals have been saying this about Bush since long before he got elected. What amazes me is that any of the electorate have the temerity to act surprised about it. This country got exactly what was advertised, and no one should be allowed to say they didn't see it coming.

The electorate wanted this, and that's why we have it. It's not about morality, it's about letting greed run amuck, and that's the way the American people appear to like it. Well, maybe now they are thinking a little differently.

Maybe I'll give them this: they had no idea how far amuck greed would take them!. In any case, for the cost of Blackwater's contract, I feel pretty certain, the US government could raise the salaries and benefits for the military, and get all the soldiers and support staff they need, without imposing a draft. Of course, Iraq is not about weapons of mass destruction, or getting rid of Saddam Hussein, or imposing democracy on the Iraqis; it is about making money for the oil industry and the defense industry.

It about the ties between the Bush administration and these industries. Bush is probably the most cynical, and, dare I say it, evil president we have ever had. Even if he is deluding himself about his intentions, and believes he was trying to do the right thing, he shut himself off from any advice to the contrary, and only listened to people who were loyal to him, and thus never gave himself a chance to get an objective view of his behavior.

I believe he knows, in his heart of hearts, that he was wrong, and he was lying to himself, and to the nation, but like the true gambler he is, he thought he'd get lucky, and get away with it. Well, what remains is a huge mess that will destroy this nation's reputation for generations, and cost us a good deal of money, as well for at least 100 more years. This fiasco will be the cause of the United States turning into a second-tier power.

Blackwater is just a symptom of the corruption of the Bush administration, and there are so many others that we don't even know about, I'm sure. We'll be finding out about them for decades.

Not if we aren't there First of all, Blackwater is only one of the mercanary groups in Iraq working for our government. So while it would have an impact, it would not be a huge one in regards to numbers. More importantly though, it would force the Mr. Bush to refocus the troops on protecting our assets there, which is what Blackwater does now.

This would be a good because it would get our combat troops out of the role of peacekeepers, which they are not trained to do. Securing and protecting land and people is what our troops should be doing. It would not require an implementation of the draft, it would require a redefining of the mission..

NO There is no need for a draft, because there is no need for the continued occupation of Iraq. Pull the troops home and there is no need for Blackwater either.

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The last time the United States instituted the draft was during the Vietnam War. Can someone explain how this worked?

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