According to The Hill announcement the DREAM Act would allow immigrants to get their green card if they're "Students who come to America before age 16 and who have been here for five years" and "after they go to college or serve in the military." and allow illegals who "volunteered to defend our country" to become citizens.

Is this what you call Amnesty?

and as Charlie said, "beats reinstating the draft".

I do have mixed emotions about the draft, I opposed it when I was subject to it, but I have no regrets about my military service and after listening to morons like Willy who were never subject to it, and who have never experienced military service, I think that the discipline that the military provides is just what many of youth need.

I would be curious as to how many people who served in the military look back on it as a net positive in their life. I know for the most part I hated military life, but looking back, I don't regret it for a moment.

And, thanks to my military training I found I was much smarter than I was given credit for by my teachers. If you attend school in a small town you can get labeled based on who your parents are, since many of your teachers had your parents as students, and they come to see your potential in terms of how they experienced your parents. I found that I scored 10 points higher on the IQ tests than I needed to get into any officer training programs or academies. I learned things I never thought I had the capacity to learn, and I still use much of what I learned, and the way I learned it, today.

I was still going to be subjected to registering for the draft, but I enlisted at 17, well prior to draft age.

Like you, I was not "military material" lol, but I have no regrets about my service, and think that many of our youth would benefit from military service. Except those that get their ass shot off of course. lol

That beats reinstating the draft.

...but in favor of every male having to serve in some compacity when they finish high school.

It shouldn't just have to be military, but everyone should spend at least some time serving their country.

...and go to an all volunteer army. That way, the US could still act as imperialist swine, and not have to deal with so much public pressure at home to bring the troops home.

Real bad habits and a hard case of PTSD that fucked me up for several years. I didn't get drafted though, I volunteered. I wouldn't say that it was a positive experience but it is not something that I regret doing. It was like having a duo and half way through it one of the providers grows a dick.

military as a condition to gain citizenship. They should also be required to sign the immigration forms in blood.

Sucked a lot, but I had a great time when it was good and the worst time when it was bad, really really bad. But what the hell. Not opposed to draft. But if your going to use US troops in combat then pull out all the stops and win as soon as possible.

WWI and WWII. I think you may have a very slight chance with Korea, Viet Nam and the two recent wars but not the big WW's. We were pretty much forced into those.