Growth of the military

What brings this to mind is the news on I believe on CNN that the military can not get minorities to volunteer even though they offer the big bucks for signing up in the so call volunteer military. Who wants to sign up for a so call volunteer military to go to Iraq to die. Why don't we be honest and admit that we all the big pay cannot get people to sign up. I see where they have lowered the requirements and increased the age to 42. If we are going to go to war then we should institude the draft again. We cannot just let the President decide to go to war with out the consent of the American People. That is the situation that we are in now. As long as there are few or no casulties then people will volunteer and go to college. As it turns out it appears that we do not have good generals that know what they are doing. Just like the CIA that have gone wild with out the direction of the American people. We need a Government headed by a President that starts to use their head instead of the feet for brains. It is too bad that we elect stupid people into our government but that is what we did this last go around with the Republican Party. It is too bad Nobody reads this but at least I am stating my opinion and it sure seems to come true. Don