Reply #9: I Wish You Were Right, Sir, But I Don't Think You Are

[Strelnikov_]

If Boosh is re-elected, an ongoing war in the middle-east is a virtual certainty, and a draft will be needed to provide the required manpower.

The drumbeats of war with Iran, although faint, are already being heard. I think the neo-con vision is for more of a limited engagement against Iran, similar to Serbia/Kosovo, in order to knock the mullahs off balance thereby allowing the democratic leaning in Iran to gain the upper hand. Unfortunately, like Iraq, the plan will go terribly wrong, with the democratic leaning aligning themselves with the mullahs against a more hated enemy, the United States.

I don't think that the draft will last long, because we will be out of money. Our military, with it's high cost weapons systems, will not be able to provide the quantity of armaments necessary to carry on the petro-jihad envisioned by the neo-cons when it explodes in their face. Look at the condition of the military after a limited engagement in Iraq.