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I listened in on a radio interview on this. Seemed pretty routine and has been this way since 1980's or so. I am sure this will bring out an interesting debate. You should listen into the interview on the site with "Ned Lebow" on his opinions about how the draft would draw on a different demographic since the last draft.
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2003/200311/20031104.html
Bring Back Draft
The Pentagon has now prohibited news cameras from capturing images of soldiers' coffins draped in American flags returning from Iraq. But that doesn't change the fact the death toll continues to climb.
The number of U.S. troops who have died in Iraq since President George Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1 reached 138 yesterday, after a soldier was killed when a homemade bomb exploded near Tikrit.
The attack came just one day after the deadliest single strike against U.S. forces since the war began. Sixteen American soldiers were killed Sunday when their helicopter was attacked by a shoulder-fired missile.
But despite the carnage, Bush is maintaining his resolve.
Still, with the security situation in Iraq as unstable as ever, many observers believe the U.S. needs to send more troops to the country.
Yesterday's vote in Congress to approve $87.5 billion for military operations and aid in Iraq and Afghanistan will help.
But some people are wondering whether that will be enough. A U.S. Department of Defense website about who gets called up for military service has raised speculation about a new draft. We'll hear more about that website in a moment, but first...
Ned Lebow is a professor of government at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. We reached him in Hanover.
Draft - Local Boards
The site is currently recruiting men and women - to volunteer as members of local draft boards. Boards like these were used to draft men up until the end of the Vietnam War. The boards were later resurrected in 1980.
As the government website states in the event of a military draft, board members would decide which Americans would qualify for deferments, postponements or exemptions from military service.
Dick Flahavan is with the Selective Service System - the Government Agency responsible for these boards. He was in Washington D.C.
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