If I was McCain, I’d say – “Look folks. You will get from the Democrats a government that is no different from their primary procedure. Overly complicated, bloated and inherently undemocratic.”
And he wouldn’t be too far off from the truth.

If you were McCain, you would be reinstating the draft to wage your 100 year war against the middle-east.

["If you were McCain, you would be reinstating the draft"]

Well then, he'd be right onboard with Democrats Charlie Rangel and Fritz Hollings, who started pushing bills to reinstate the draft back in 2003.

I think Rangel has now introduced his bill for the third time.

The Senate bill Hollings introduced in 2003 never made it out of committee in a Republican controlled Senate.

Rangel's original bill had 15 co-sponsors..., every one of them Democrats.
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So, I guess it's safe to say that if McCain SHOULD want a draft in the future, the DEMOCRATS controlling Congress would be falling all over themselves to give him one.

Um, you do know they're trying to reinstate the draft to end the war, right?

Since the theme has focused on John McCain, the Iraq War and reviving the Draft, I'd like to share (for the first time in public) the true story of how I dealt with the challenges I faced during the Viet Nam War.

To begin with, I faced the war with an important advantage: My knowledge! All that I knew to be true was in my favor.

I knew that there was no valid justification for invading Viet Nam, and that the now discredited "Domino Theory" was a nothing more than lie, a fraud perpetrated on the American Public to validate an invalid and unjustifiable political decision in an effort to lend it an aura of pseudo-patriotism. I knew that there was no need to invade Viet Nam or to lose those fifty thousand American (and many more Vietnamese) lives, and that no valid purpose was served by the USA's military presence in a sovereign state that represented no threat to the USA.

So when the time came to present myself before the US Army's examiners (the first step toward being sent to the front), I was already determined to act upon my knowledge in a congruent and decisive way. Rather than run away from this challenge (as many did at the time, to Sweden and Canada), I decided to meet it head on.

I knew that I had to demonstrate to the Army that they were dealing with someone that thinks things through, someone that thinks for himself, someone capable of making the hard decisions and taking action when the going gets tough, someone capable of getting the job done, of doing whatever it takes to fulfil my mission, and my mission was showing the Army the stuff I was made of!

I went to the examination prepared to explain in clear (albeit complex) philosophical, social and psychological terms, why my personal development required the continuation of the kind of life I was already living. To my dismay, when I was done with the lecture I was told: "Mr Hinds, you're an intelligent man. The Army needs intelligent men and you need the Army".

Well, that wasn't true either. What the Army needed was men that take orders, not men that think for themselves. (Thinking things through is contagious and can spread to the rest of the troops).

So after I demonstrated my ability to make an accurate evaluation of a dangerous situation and choose a course of action that proved to be effective for getting the job done I was granted 1-Y status. I-Y status signifies: "This man can and will fight; call him whenever a true national emergency occurs" (but don't bother trying to involve him in foolish and useless military adventures like the Viet Nam and Iraq wars, because he knows they serve only those that would destroy the economic, human and moral fabric of this nation).

Rather than real war heroes, they create people who are in the wrong place at the wrong time and for the wrong reasons, people who could get shot down, held prisoner and sometimes tortured for it, like John McCain says happened to him.

Well, I wasn't in the wrong place or get shot down for my error and it was the power of my knowledge and ability to communicate it to others that allowed it to happen. John McCain didn't know then or now and that's why he's still delivering the same wrong message today.

I'm going to vote for someone willing to invest our economic, human and institutional resources IN THE USA (not squander them in Iraq), someone who knows that this is the only route that America has to return to it's former greatness.

History has bore me out and I'm proud of the course I chose. The question remains however: Which of us was the real war hero, me or John McCain?

If I were Sen. McCain, I would consider sending money to keep Sen. Clinton in play so that she stays in until August and destroys the candidacies of both Sen. Obama and herself.

If I were Sen. McCain, I would be praying that the "good" news from Iraq holds to election day!

If I were Sen. McCain, I would be preparing for future debates so that I did not pull a gaffe like confusing the Shiites and the Sunnis.