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Sensei_Rebel Donating Member (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:18 PM
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Bush wants every1 to serve in the military
Edited on Wed May-26-04 12:23 PM by Sensei_Rebel
Want Bush around to bring back the military draft and force YOU into war due to half the army not reenlisting ? Then vote Bush.

If Bush gets re-elected, he plans to bring back the draft and send everyone and anyone he can into war. Knowing Bush lives in the 1800s and is a backwards-jackass, I believe it's true. Judge for yourself.

http://congress.org
http://www.bushdraft.com


Spread the word.



http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues...=ua_congressorg

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 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 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.
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:21 PM
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1. He needs all those soldiers
to fight all the wars he has planned.
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shoelace414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:22 PM
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2. But?
How are we supposed to be able to invade and occupy Syria with the current depleted military?
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demigoddess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:27 PM
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6. i just read an article
That says that bush has already imposed some sanctions on Syria
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=4325

This sounds pretty scary to me, like he has make up his mind.
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Kipper58 Donating Member (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:24 PM
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3. ATTENTION FREEPERS WITH KIDS
Read this thread and remember where you saw it first when your kids are drafted if Bush is reselected!

( And by the way - read my sig line!)
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rangerfan Donating Member (176 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:25 PM
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4. What I don't understand is that both of these bills were introduced
by Democrats. The Senat bill by Hollings and the House bill by Rangel. What's up with that?
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:28 PM
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7. I'm concerned about that too. I think that they are trying to
eliminate the "outs" that Rs seem to use more to squiggle their way out of actually getting into danger.
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Sensei_Rebel Donating Member (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:28 PM
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8. ppl are flaming me about the Democrats introducing it
I tell them I'd rather die for Kerry. What else can I say ?
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rangerfan Donating Member (176 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:30 PM
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11. Makes no difference who you die for. Dead is dead.
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Sensei_Rebel Donating Member (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:34 PM
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14. But Bush started it
Kerry didn't introduce this war.

PLUS, Bush is a JERK.
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:43 PM
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17. I saw Rangel on TV shortly after he introduced his bill...
He said that currently his constituency was one of the hardest hit by the Iraq war and he wanted other regions to contribute their fair share.

His is a poorer constituency that frequently has to turn to the armed services for employment, therefore more of his constituents were sent to Iraq to fight. If I remember this right, his bill was proposing a more equitable sharing of the war burden.

I don't know the details.
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Andy_Stephenson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:27 PM
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5. Problem is...
Kerry is on board with the draft as well. He will have too..to keep the war on till the end of his first term.

I say bring em home now!
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Sensei_Rebel Donating Member (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:30 PM
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10. I heard Kerry is a pacifist
So do you really think he'd want the draft too ?
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ugarte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:33 PM
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13. When did Kerry say he favored bringing back the draft?
I've never seen that anywhere.
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Sensei_Rebel Donating Member (34 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:36 PM
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16. Kerry didn't say that ( i think )
I didn't mean Kerry said anything about the draft. NO ONE wants to mention it cuz it'll kill their election anyway. I dunno much about it, but couldn't Kerry kill Bush in the polls with this news ?
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ugarte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:29 PM
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9. Unfortunately, there are some here at DU who also want a draft
but to me no government has the right to tell me to kill against my will. If you believe the government has the right to conscript your body to fight, how can it not have the right to conscript a woman's body and tell her she must bear a child?


"There is no more horrible crime against liberty than to compel men to kill each other when their conscience tells them to live in peace."
--Bertrand Russell
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bullimiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:32 PM
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12. Start with the twins
Then Jorge P , Jebby no pants and the Crackhead.
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-04 12:35 PM
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15. Not everyone.
"Bush wants every1 to serve in the military"

There will be some loophole inserted that will allow the twins or anyone else named Bush or Cheney or Limbaugh or Rumsfield or Chickenhawk not to serve.
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