Can you feel a draft?

[FluffyMcDeath]

For all those who have secretly wanted to be in the army but never had the guts to sign up, the US government wants to help YOU.

Draft for 2005 (http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=5834001&content_dir=ua_congressorg)

Of course, there is no guarantee that this will pass, but if it does, Canada is supposed to have an extradition treaty in place to prevent an influx of reluctant youngsters.

I don't know the situation with Mexico, and it is much warmer there. If the worst comes to the worst, American kids could try sailing inner tubes to Cuba. :-D

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@ Fluffy
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Gosh Fluffy, sometimes you make it so easy! I know it gets to be a habit to believe stuff on the internet, but sometimes if it sounds too good to be true, you should check your sources.

Mr. Charles Rangel, Democrat New York
Mr. Jim (Baghdad Jim) McDermott, Democrat Wash. State
Mr. John Conyers, Democrat Mich.
Mr. John Lewis, Democrat Georgia,
Mr. Fortny (Pete) Stark, Democrat Calif.
and Mr. Neil Abercrombie, Democrat Hawaii
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services. H.R. 163

[KennyR]

There's no real pressure for a draft right now. From what I was hearing from interviews of US troops in Iraq, many of them are ex-petty criminals who would find it real hard to get a normal job anyway, or rather, a job that pays better than flipping burgers or pumping gas. Something that's common to all right wing regimes, actually.

[FluffyMcDeath]

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@ Fluffy
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Gosh Fluffy, sometimes you make it so easy! I know it gets to be a habit to believe stuff on the internet, but sometimes if it sounds too good to be true, you should check your sources.

[...] H.R. 163

Yes, that's the one. What's your point? Does it not reinstate the draft? Let's see what (Pete) Stark says:
Stark says.. (http://www.house.gov/stark/documents/108th/univdraftstate.html)

Hmmm. Am I misinterpreting the phrase "Universal National Service Act of 2003 (HR 163), which would reinstate a national draft"?

[T_Bone]

FluffyMcDeath wrote:

Fade wrote:
@ Fluffy
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Gosh Fluffy, sometimes you make it so easy! I know it gets to be a habit to believe stuff on the internet, but sometimes if it sounds too good to be true, you should check your sources.

[...] H.R. 163

Yes, that's the one. What's your point?

His point was that the draft is only being considered to scare people into voting against anyone who would use the military. Alternately, you could always vote against those that want the draft. Anyway, nobody who's proposing it actually want's it. It's a ploy.

[FluffyMcDeath]

T_Bone wrote:

Yes, that's the one. What's your point?

His point was that the draft is only being considered to scare people into voting against anyone who would use the military.


Yes, it's a ploy, but if it's passed it's also law. Yes, it is designed to make people realize the gravity of the decision to go to war, that everyone will have to shoulder the burden, but it is also true that the US does not have the manpower to keep up with its current deployments. They're having to move soldiers from Korea!