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Article i found ... is it true? http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=5834001&content_dir=ua_congressorg

i pasted it below

Pending Draft Legislation Targeted for Spring 2005
The Draft will Start in June 2005







There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will time the program's initiation so the draft can begin at early as Spring 2005 -- just after the 2004 presidential election. The administration is quietly trying to get these bills passed now, while the public's attention is on the elections, so our action on this is needed immediately.

$28 million has been added to the 2004 Selective Service System (SSS) budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as early as June 15, 2005. Selective Service must report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation. Please see website: www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html to view the sss annual performance plan - fiscal year 2004.

The pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide.. Though this is an unpopular election year topic, military experts and influential members of congress are suggesting that if Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan [and a permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.

Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year, http://www.hslda.org/legislation/na...s89/default.asp entitled the Universal National Service Act of 2003, "to provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons [age 18--26] in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes." These active bills currently sit in the committee on armed services.

Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those from the Vietnam era.

College and Canada will not be options. In December 2001, Canada and the U.S. signed a "smart border declaration," which could be used to keep would-be draft dodgers in. Signed by Canada's minister of foreign affairs, John Manley, and U.S. Homeland Security director, Tom Ridge, the declaration involves a 30-point plan which implements, among other things, a "pre-clearance agreement" of people entering and departing each country. Reforms aimed at making the draft more equitable along gender and class lines also eliminates higher education as a shelter. Underclassmen would only be able to postpone service until the end of their current semester. Seniors would have until the end of the academic year.

Even those voters who currently support US actions abroad may still object to this move, knowing their own children or grandchildren will not have a say about whether to fight. Not that it should make a difference, but this plan, among other things, eliminates higher education as a
shelter and includes women in the draft.

The public has a right to air their opinions about such an important decision.

Please send this on to all the friends, parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, and cousins that you know. Let your children know too -- it's their future, and they can be a powerful voice for change!

Please also contact your representatives to ask them why they aren't telling their constituents about these bills -- and contact newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why they're not covering this important story.
 
Gee. I posted this a little while ago. Lets see who laughs this time.
 
well Im 16 when this draft starts ill be about 18
 
i dont want to be shot carrying 100 pounds of equipment fighting people who blend into the population
 
Originally posted by dilloduck
I'll buy that----so how do you propose we man our military?

better incentives for people to want to enlist. better enlisted pay, better benefits. better opportunities for after a military career i.e. college or job training during career to use as DoD employee's etc.
 
Originally posted by op3g
i dont want to be shot carrying 100 pounds of equipment fighting people who blend into the population

well, be happy millions of others have done it for you then.
 
Originally posted by DKSuddeth
better incentives for people to want to enlist. better enlisted pay, better benefits. better opportunities for after a military career i.e. college or job training during career to use as DoD employee's etc.

Agreed-----where do we get the money for that?
 
Originally posted by dilloduck
Agreed-----where do we get the money for that?

the money is already there. what needs to be done is better budget management to cut out the tens of millions that are wasted already..
 
Originally posted by op3g
well Im 16 when this draft starts ill be about 18

The selective service requirement has never gone away per se and it has always still been a requirement to register when you turn 18. Only difference seems to be that next year, they might actually reinstitute the draft .
 
Originally posted by DKSuddeth
the money is already there. what needs to be done is better budget management to cut out the tens of millions that are wasted already..

How I wish this could be achieved !
 
Originally posted by dilloduck
How I wish this could be achieved !

it could were it not for a select group of people that would yell about how we are undermining national security for political gain or accuse us of underfunding our military.
 
This comes up on the board about once a month. No one is stupid enough to reinstitute the draft. In fact, the liberal Democrats are the ones who have introduced draft legislation - the same ones who opposed the war.

I agree with DK's statement also - a draft would lower morale and lower the readiness level of the armed forces.
 
Originally posted by gop_jeff
This comes up on the board about once a month. No one is stupid enough to reinstitute the draft. In fact, the liberal Democrats are the ones who have introduced draft legislation - the same ones who opposed the war.

I agree with DK's statement also - a draft would lower morale and lower the readiness level of the armed forces.

It has also been posted that recruitment is actually up, the military is meeting their quotas.
 
Originally posted by DKSuddeth
it could were it not for a select group of people that would yell about how we are undermining national security for political gain or accuse us of underfunding our military.

This select group would oppose financial incentives for our military because it would undermine national security ? I don't understand DK
 

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