Let's be honest people. Nobody WANTS a draft but everybody and their uncle keeps talking about "taking the war to the terrorists" and "killing them before they can hurt us in America." Neither GOPie platitudes nor Michael Moore's crappy movies will get that job done.
Everybody wants the Iraqi police force, Iraqi National Guard, Iraqi Border Patrol, Iraqi Army, and Iraqi Secret Police to be trained, equipped, and deployed in sufficient numbers to draw down US forces in the region. But it ain't gonna happen any time soon . . . if at all. In the meantime, it ain't exactly Pacific Heights in Baghdad. Hell it's not even the Mission District. (Those are SF references for the uninitiated.)
We've already made it clear that we are not going to fight North Korea (at least not with OUR troops). Accordingly, most of the forces in South Korea and Japan should be redeployed to Iraq (we're not fighting China, either). Unfortunately, that's just a bandaid. The long term strategic goals (either Bush's BS or Kerry's wishful thinking) will require a larger military (at least a dramatic increase in Special Forces).
In the very plausible scenario of Iraq getting worse . . . we will not be able to depend on the fledgling (and unreliable) Iraqi forces. We certainly have no allies that will send more troops. Under such a scenario we will be compelled to either draft our own "fledgling force" composed largely of people more adept at killing from the comfort of a couch and a PS2 . . . or . . . packing our shyte and leaving. Both options will have dire consequences.
But this is definitely a discussion that should not be swept under the rug. It's perfectly fine to prepare for the best case scenario but only a fool would ignore the worst.