I saw more on this over the past few days. Bush says he won't do it, and the Pentagon says it's unnecessary.
The Senator wants the draft because he thinks an unfair burden is being placed on minorities. While African-Americans make up 12% of the US population, they are the majority of the 35% of minorities that make up the US armed services. He feels that is unfair, so he wants to re-instate the draft.
Not because a draft is needed but to draft more Caucasian American's because there were too many African-Americans serving.
I guess he just wants to draft Caucasian Americans until it evens out? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]
I wonder how he'd feel if someone proposed refusing all African-Americans from military service after the armed services reached 12%.
The whole idea is nothing more than an attempt to grab headlines.
[ 01-06-2003, 04:45 PM: Message edited by: Ronn_Bman ]