I just saw this question posed in a message board that piqued my interest.

For the last couple months, there has been a lot of increased talk about bringing back the draft. This problem is made worse by the fact that the current debacle in Iraq has made recruiting and reenlistment numbers in steep decline. The fact is, we’re stuck there. An early pullout from Iraq could make a bad situation much worse, but at the same time, Bush knows that if this “death a day” thing is still happening in October, he’s screwed. The only thing that would be worse for him politically would be to bring back the draft. So what’s he gonna do?

He’s gonna go to the people that all unscrupulous employers go to when they have a job that’s so shitty that “regular” Americans don’t want to do it : illegal immigrants. And let’s face it, I can’t think of a job worse than sitting in 100 degree weather waiting to be murdered by Iraqi guerrillas. With the crux of Bush’s plan that it’ll let illegal workers be here with the sponsorship of an employer, it’ll be interesting to see if the military starts up a parallel “open sponsorship” program.