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["Lance A. Brown" <lance AT bearcircle.net>]

Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 11:46, zman wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Tony Spencer wrote:
> >
> > > This draft hoax is nothing more than a hoax.  My step-brother just finished
> > > basic training this month.  Only 40 were selected out of 100 *volunteers*.
> > > Doesn't seem like the military is having any trouble recruiting.
> >
> > Sorry to piss in your cornflakes, but it is not a hoax. There are bills in 
> > both the house and senate to reinstate the draft. I don't consider that a 
> > hoax. But of course if you have some other kind of dictionary you use...
>
> Um, there haven't been any bills introduced.  That can be verified. 

Not sure this qualifies as "a return of the draft" but it sounds 
similar.  H.R.163 and S.89 are both the "Universal National Service Act 
of 2003".  They were introduced to their respective houses on January 
7th 2003. Quoting the opening statement of each:

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.

Thomas links are:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c108:2:./temp/~c108ZLSNlZ::
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c108:3:./temp/~c108ZLSNlZ::

I'm not very clueful at reading the status of bills in Thomas, so I'm 
not sure where these stand.

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