Rich kids and well-heeled, genteel bluebloods pounding the ground through the mud and the rain, taking point as they beat the bushes looking for the enemy?

Ludicrous.

That's what'll never happen. If the 'Pubs get the White House again in '08, there will be a push to reinstate the draft (because the war will drag on), and as the Democrats evidently support this idea (at least Rangle does), it'll probably go through.

But don't expect any kind of 'class equality' in the U.S. Army.

It'll still be the same bunch of pretty good (but poor) kids who weren't well connected or rich enough to buy their way out of a typical Army tour of duty. The same ones in peacetime with enough gumption to choose the Army over a dead-end job flipping burgers at McDonald's.