As fonzi would say, exactamundo.

I dug up an old post I made about this on one of the various forums I waste all my time on. This was a while back when support for the war was not quite a dismal as it is today.

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“Draft. We need a draft.

But why don’t we have one?

Not because us unpatriotic, communist, fascist, terrorist loving liberals would fight it, after all who cares what we think, but because small town America would turn vehemently against the Bush administration over it and the 35% support for the war in Iraq would turn into 2% over night.

You see, as long as someone else’s sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers, mothers are having to go to Iraq, fence sitting and patriotic macho ‘bring-it-on’ opinions are no problem. But the minute your close kin are forced to go, the whole damn thing changes. At that point we have to take an informed, serious look at the situation.

For now we can continue to stick our head in the sand and waive the flag with our ass cheeks.”

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However, I think now we are now a bit past the luxury of time afforded us during the ass-cheek-flag-waiving stage.

And I don’t blame the American people. I blame a movement that has spent six years talking about Islam being the greatest threat to the history of mankind, then going to get bogged down in an occupation that makes it all worse.

Basically, my point is this: shit or get off the pot. And the simple fact is, Bush & Co. know there’s no way of selling a draft. No shot in hell. Because the majority of the public has finally wised up to the fact that the U.S. is fighting a war against a tactic in the middle of a civil war.

But they are still playing the fear card, as Giuliani did so horrifically the other day. So someone has to give them the ultimatum - either full-scale, national war against every enemy the U.S. has or perceives, or go back home, and start the long process of making the U.S. safer.

Bush and cronies got away with scaring everyone to hell all the while not asking for any type of sacrifice. So when the crew at the top balks at a draft, or higher taxes, we need to press them on why, with such a horrifying, existence-ending threat facing us.

It won’t happen, likely, but it’s a nice fantasy. On the bright side, Congress has made it clear they are going to impede Bush’s grand vision of a neverending war against boogiemen and a tactic.

–WKW

They did. There was great divisiveness about sending troops into Europe. It took Pearl Harbor to throw overwhelming support toward the war and by that time Hitler was all over Europe.

But when we went in, we fought a clearly defined enemy. Not a war on “bad stuff”.

Four years after the US declared war in WWII, the imperialist war machine of Japan was done and Hitler’s insane vision of a great Aryan kingdom was in ruins, along with most of Europe.

In September 2001 al Qaeda attacked the US. Almost 6 years later and al Qaeda, a relatively small organization compared to the nations of Germany and Japan, is still attacking our allies, recruiting new members and inspiring similar organizations, and broadcasting threats on television and radio. Not to mention the fact that Iraq is now in the midst of a civil war and our actions in Iraq have caused great tensions amongst some of our long standing allies as well as creating another focal point to rally anti-American sentiment amongst Islamic extremist.

So what’s the difference between WW2 and WOT?

Sure we could blame the American people for all of this. But with foreign policy issues the buck normally stops with American leaders. So I prefer to put the blame where it belongs. FDR. I mean, GWB.