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[Butch Lazorchak <contactus AT squealermusic.com>]

Those bills were introduced by Democrats prior to the commencement of 
official hostilities to "bring the war home" to the Republicans. It was 
a reminder that if a draft were re-instituted, all those Republican 
children, comfortably insulated from dirty things like having to actual 
fight a war, could get sent to the desert and join all the other folks 
who didn't have the same options they had. If it was your kid (rather 
than those "other" people's) who was going to get sent to die for 
pointless adventurism, perhaps you'd think about things a little 
differently.

Butch



Lance A. Brown wrote:

> 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.
>
> --[Lance]

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