The oracle speaks

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If Bush wins in November, look for the draft to restart by the end of 2005. Dollars to donuts says they’d really like to switch it on right now, but for the precipitous popularity drop it would guarantee. But if an overconfident neocon administration (check) thinks that, with an inexhaustible supply of fresh troops and techs, it could finally meet all its international burnination objectives within a couple of years and seal up a Cheney (or whomever) win in 2008, I bet that it would gleefully take the risk.

Think you’re too old? But you’re a hacker, eh? Uh-oh...

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Counter-prediction

[dougo.livejournal.com]

There will never be a draft while the Baby Boomers still control Congress. Even if it's all Republicans, I think enough of them remember how badly the last draft went.