In his Imperial zeal to conquer Iraq and the rest of the world in order to seize its resources for his corporate cronies, Shrub Bush is in the process of reinstituting the draft to force all young people to act as cannon fodder for his Imperial follies! Read about on From The Wilderness site:

I have admired Michael Ruppert's research and am firmly convinced that the 9/11/01 events were a Reichstag Fire. That was obvious from the day it happened and Ruppert's research has confirmed it, as has the research of all the other outstanding investigators.

However, the doom and gloom portrayed in the linked article ignores the reality of resistance, which put an end to the draft in 1973 and an end to the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975, the happiest day of my life. I am about the same age as Ruppert, so I am very aware of the previous major war, from the same generational framework, but of course, not the same political framework, being a lifelong socialist.

All readers should note that it was due to the massive national protests that Bush did not send US troops to take over the docks to bust the ILWU. If he were to have the military move the cargo, US ships would not be able to dock or be unloaded anywhere in the world.

He also has not invoked Taft-Hartley because he desperately needs to neutralize labor to carry out his blood for oil wars. He is very aware that the ILWU has tremendous national and international support.

It is significant t hat unlike during the Vietnam War, labor is a major focus and because of that fact, labor and the peace movement are able to jointly challenge Bush's insanity. This is a major advance in the struggle.

It is also significant that the peace movement has broadened before the Congressional vote. not after. Our peace movement of the Vietnam War was fueled by the draft, and the resulting body bags of the 58,000 dead Americans. While the Gulf of Tonkin pretext was in 1964, it was not until 1968 that our peace movement became prominent, and then, it remained dominant only among students, who were subject to the draft when they stopped being full-time students. When the draft ended in 1973, most of the protests against the Vietnam War ended, although the US and its South Vietnamese puppets continued to fight the National Liberation Front, paid for with our tax dollars.

Today, the peace movement is both on and off campus, and we are deluging Congress with our protests before any Congressional resolution passes. This is a sign of both the increased political understanding in this country of the devastating consequences of war and of the very weak economy, as it is much weaker than it was during the Vietnam War. Our boom years were 1945 to 1973, with the decline starting after 1965 as a direct result of the drain of the Vietnam War. The permanent war economy on which we have been since 1941 has severely weakened the economy, and is a sign of the utter bankruptcy of capitalism, for it is the profit motive that is the driving force of all these wars.

It is time to eliminate the profit motive and establish socialism. Only labor can make that change. I have far more hope than does Michael Ruppert. I hope he reconsiders his message and teaches people to resist, support labor and understand that we have in fact progressed. The peace movement has grown with each successive imperialist war, starting with the Korean War, then the Vietnam War which was a repeat of the Korean War but with a broader peace movement, all the smaller wars around the world since then, and now Bush's war against the world. Humanity can and must prevail.

Meria Heller made comments about Ruppert you'll find interesting. Check this out:

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/153305.php