Leading Democrats who soon will control the agenda of the U.S. Congress reject a colleague's call for reinstatement of the U.S. military draft.

As a 22 year old male, I am strongly opposed to the reinstatement of the military draft.  If it was necessary then I may have a different opinion, but I, along with many top ranking officials, don't see the need for this sort of action.

I have heard talk about if the draft would get reinstated, how would it be carried out?  One suggestion I've heard would be to assign every male of draft age registered with selective service a number.  Someone would pull numbers until the proper quota would be filled, and those chose would be forced to serve regardless of if they were employed or in college.

Another suggestion I've heard would be to draft by a priority system meaning start with those 18 years old and not enrolled in a form of higher education and proceed from there.  If you would be enrolled in college you would get a free pass from being drafted unless more troops would be needed.

Many argue that the second system I spoke about isn't fair to the poor.  This system would only draft poor Southerners to go off and fight a war.  I can see where they are coming from with that.  It is not fair that the rich get to "dodge" the war only because they come from money and can afford to be enrolled in college.

The first system isn't quite fair either.  Why should a person who is trying to better themselves by going to college get pulled out to fight in a war they never wanted to fight in the first place.  It doesn't make sense for a "bum" who is too lazy to work and not get drafted while a hard-working, smart college student gets picked to go and fight.

I don't know what system I like the best.  To tell you the absolute truth, I don't agree with any system or any form of a draft.  I think it is important to our society to keep our military as a voluntary to join force.  You may see this differently, but to me the way it has been has worked in the past, and I don't see how it won't continue to work in the future.