Isn’t it odd that the political party whose now aging elected members were at the forefront in protesting the draft during the Vietnam era now are doing everything they can to bring it back?

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What action will the KOSsacks want? A withdrawal? It’s happening? A withdrawal as fast as possible? It’s happening already.

These people shoulda listened to General Petraeus instead of just blowing him off before he even spoke ala Reid and MoveOn.

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They don’t really want it, it is planning to be used as a tactic to stir up protesters.

Here is a bleg over at kos land by MeteorBlades for street protesters

by Meteor Blades

Fri Oct 26, 2007 at 05:54:59 PM PDT

I can tell by the paltry response to recent Diaries on the subject that most Kossacks won’t be joining tomorrow’s National Day of Action Against the War in Iraq. Not even most Kossacks in the 12 locales where major protests will be taking place.

There are lots of perfectly understandable reasons for not going. You’re not actually against the Iraq war and occupation, for instance. You live 500 miles from the nearest protest city. You have a Saturday job. Or a project deadline. You need to study every hour of the weekend for a Monday exam. You promised to take your daughter to a ballgame. You desperately need to recreate after a tough week. You have serious mobility problems. You’re ill. You don’t want a photo of yourself in a protest march showing up on your pro-Bush boss’s desk. Or you just don’t want to go, period.

How can I legitimately argue with any of that?

But if you’re free from obligation at the time the nearest antiwar protest is held tomorrow and you’re staying away because you don’t like the organizers or because you think such actions are passé, I have to ask — respectfully — what will you be doing tomorrow to try to end the war?

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The draft again? greaaat…. Just what the Military does NOT want (we made recruiting and retention goals again this year).

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Scott

This really doesn’t surprise me as a tactic.

I watch the left side just to see what they are up to and for the last couple of weeks I am picking up what seems to be an emerging concept for them.

I started with Rangel I believe but it is being more actively talked about on the left. The seem to be getting ready to do a push to propose bringing back the draft. From what I am reading it’s a two prong plan.

One if they can’t get it passed they use it as a political hammer in the elections.

Two if they get it passed then that will be what they consider the missing ingredient to kick protests into high gear like the VietNam glory days of protesting.

They figure either way it will still stir a hornets nest among the suddenly vocal anti-war types who realized they may have to put their butts on the line.

The left has been complaining for months about the lack of kids in the street and this seems to be their way to try to gin up some rage for the stage.

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