NP: Does anyone else feel a draft?

[Tim Strzechowski]

[...] 
"There's not an American ... that doesn't understand what we are engaged in today and what the prospects are for the future," Senator Chuck Hagel told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on post-occupation Iraq. 


"Why shouldn't we ask all of our citizens to bear some responsibility and pay some price?" Hagel said, arguing that restoring compulsory military service would force "our citizens to understand the intensity and depth of challenges we face." 

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Read the rest, en route to Canada:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040420/ts_alt_afp/us_iraq_military_draft_040420172423


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