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| Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 11:04 am
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On October 5th, 2004, Congress voted 402 to 2 in order to defeat a
draft bill that was introduced by Rep. Charles Rangel(D-NY) in order
to protest a real draft;
http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2896~2451829,00.html
"The U.S. House of Representatives this week overwhelmingly defeated a
bill to reinstate the military draft, a move Republican leaders said
was designed to kill rumors that the draft would be on the way after
the November election.
North Coast Congressman Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, joined a 402-2
majority of the House in defeating the draft bill late Tuesday, which
was authored last year by Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. But Thompson
criticized this week's draft-killing vote as a Republican effort to
manipulate public opinion in favor of President Bush just weeks before
voters head to the polls.
In a telephone interview from Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Thompson
said Republican leaders brought the draft bill up for a vote on
Tuesday in a surprise move. The bill had never had a hearing or been
through a committee, the congressman said.
"No. 1, that's not the way to do public policy," Thompson said. "And
(No.) 2, it was obvious they did it for political purposes. We've used
and abused the congressional legislative process for political
purposes countless times over the past two years. We've taken to using
the Constitution for political purposes. And I think that's just
wrong."
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The vote by Congress was obviously a slight of hand deception designed
to help Bush get re-elected in November and to quell the truth about a
real draft that will be reinstated in 2005 if Bush is re-elected.
There have already been previous attempts to reinstate the draft by
the Republicans.
Back in December of 2001, less than 3 months after 9/11, Represenative
Nick Smith(R-MI) introduced H.R. 3598, a type of draft bill which
would require mandatory military service for 18-22 year old men and
women for a period of 2 years.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.3598:
"SEC. 3. BASIC MILITARY TRAINING AND EDUCATION.
(a) OBLIGATION FOR YOUNG MEN- It is the obligation of every male
citizen of the United States, and every other male person residing in
the United States, who is between the ages of 18 and 22 to receive
basic military training and education as a member of the armed forces
unless the citizen or person is exempted under the provisions of this
Act.
(b) ACCEPTANCE OF YOUNG WOMEN VOLUNTEERS- Female citizens of the
United States, and other female persons residing in the United States,
who are between the ages of 18 and 22 may volunteer for enlistment in
the armed forces to receive basic military training and education
under this Act. At the discretion of the Secretary concerned, the
Secretary concerned may accept such volunteers to receive such
training and education."
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Since Republicans have a history of trying to reinstate the draft in
the wake of 9/11, it's very likely the Republicans will try to
reinstate the draft again if Bush wins the election and another
9/11-style terror attack takes place before, during or after the
election.
On the April 21st, 2004 edition of the "Today Show", Senator Chuck
Hagel(R-NE) said it was time to reinstate the draft because of the
"generational war on terrorism";
http://www.objector.org/positionpaper.html
"Appearing on NBC's Today Show on April 21, 2004, Hagel said that
mandatory military service must be considered in the face of what he
described as a generational war against terrorism , with a grim
forecast of the US being engaged in war for the next 25 years! "
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There is even a "Skills Draft" in the works for 2005;
http://www.blatanttruth.org/alert.htm
"This is a SPECIAL MILITARY DRAFT ALERT. In May, the Seattle Post
Intelligencer published an article about a document they received
through the Freedom of Information Act. It was revealed that the SSS
is currently "designing procedures" for the implementation of a
"Skills Draft" and had held a top-level meeting on it with Deputy
Undersecretaries at the Defense Department. This draft would change
the essential mission of the Selective Service and require "virtually
every young American," male and female ages 18–34, to register for the
Skills Draft and list all the occupations they are proficient in to
fill labor shortages throughout nearly the entire government. If
enacted, the Skills Draft proposed in this FOI- recovered document
would change America as we know it.
The Pentagon is suffering from immediate labor shortages. Recently,
the inactive Ready Reserve had to be called up for the first time
since the Gulf War to fill 5,600 job shortages in the Armed Forces.
DoD said in the recent IRR callup "20% of the call-ups are truck
drivers, 12% are supply specialists who can use a computer to track
supplies, 10% are Humvee mechanics, 7% are administrative specialists
and 6% are combat engineers" (USA Today, August 8, 2004).
Although Congress would have to approve new legislation to create a
Skills Draft or reinstate the combat draft, Family Circle reported in
its July 13 issue that Karl Rove had polled GOP members of Congress in
September 2002 to see if they would support the President if he
requests reinstatement. The Republicans said they would vote for the
draft. They would likely support the new legislation needed to create
the Skills Draft. While Bush and the Republicans are of course keeping
the return of the draft and the new skills draft as quiet as possible,
many anti-draft organizations have recently begun warning of a "Coming
New Draft. " "
"This document;
http://www.blatanttruth.org/selective_service091304.pdf
is real, having been acknowledged by the DoD and the SSS when they
said no action is being taken on it at the present time. However,
given the current manpower shortages for certain skills and nurses, if
Bush gets back in, expect all the options outlined in the Issue Paper
to be implemented by the end of December of this year, and at the
least a non-combat skills and medical draft to start next year, if not
the male combat draft, ages 18 –25.
Despite Rumsfeld saying the draft is not needed, this is the same
neo-con administration that has repeatedly lied to and misled the
American people. Draft-age youth and their families are left looking
at a "long, hard slog" in Iraq (Rumsfeld secret memo), the neo-con
plans to invade still more nations, and then having to take Rumsfeld
and Cheney's word not to worry about the draft, that they "are not
considering it at this time."
Although official word is that this secret list of options is not
being implemented—the Issue Paper options have NOT been rejected and
the 6-page proposal is rather sitting in the Pentagon, waiting. In
addition, the SSS itself has said that it is "designing procedures"
(Seattle PI, May 1, 2004) to implement the skills draft, meaning
designing the compliance cards and the data fields needed to keep
track of "virtually every young American" and their skills. Acting
Director of the SSS Brodsky has also said the Skills Draft is the "top
priority" of the Selective Service for 2004.
From the FOI document, we now know that on February 11, 2003, Charles
Abell, the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and
Readiness, and William Carr, Deputy Undersecretary for Military
Personnel Policy, met with Lewis Brodsky, the Acting Director of the
Selective Service and some other officials. This is the highest-level
meeting you could have about the Selective Service, outside of
Rumsfeld and his inner circle. They were there to discuss the urgent
"issue paper" now revealed, which starts: "With known shortages of
military personnel with certain critical skills, and with the need for
the nation to be capable of responding to domestic emergencies as a
part of Homeland Security Planning, changes should be made in the
Selective Service System's registration program and primary mission."
Although it would require changes in current draft law, the
far-reaching proposal shows how far the Republicans are going to plan
and prepare for a huge expansion of the draft. The Issue Paper options
include:
* Change the very mission of the SSS to become a massive conscription
service in the War on Terror for the entire government.
* Conscript men and women in a critical skills non-combat draft up to
age 34 with no deferments of any kind, except "essential community
service" (like the Medical Draft).
* Allow a non-combat draft for shortages in critical skills, without
calling a combat draft.
* Fill labor shortages of all kinds throughout not only DoD but the
whole government, especially high-paying professionals like computer
networking specialist or linguist.
* Create a massive database of "virtually every young American" ages
18 to 34. This database would be used to draft in war and to recruit
in peacetime. State and even local governments would be given access
to the names for recruitment and help in emergencies.
* Create a single-point, all-inclusive database, in which every young
person would be forced to send in a "self-declaration" of all of their
critical skills, chosen from a long list of occupations like the Armed
Forces Specialty Code. The self-declaration is similar to IRS
compliance and the filling out and signing of your tax forms. All
young people would be required to keep the government updated if they
acquired a new skill. SSS Compliance forms will be available at every
Post Office. The usual penalties of imprisonment and/or a $250,000
fine would apply to all non-registrants.
* A draft or recruitment could be for any one of the skills you self-
declare on the compliance form, not your current or primary skill.
This greatly increases your chance of being drafted if you are 18–34.
* Bring the Medical Draft (HCPDS) up to speed and fully test it
through readiness exercises.
* Reduce induction time from being able to deliver all inductees in
193 days down to just 90 days for skills inductees.
This secret paper urges the mission be changed "promptly," meaning
they really need it, it would draft for the Pentagon as well as the
enormous Homeland Security branches as well as other government
agencies, even state and local!
For obvious political reasons, the decision was made by Bush, Cheney
and Rove to sit on this 6-page proposal until after the election in
November. Yet the SSS was told to go ahead and begin "designing
procedures" for the Skills Draft in 2004 and make it their "top
priority." It can be expected that if Bush gets back in, and the DoD
and SSS are still asking for the Skills Draft, the "Next Steps" part
of the document will be put into action and the most expansive option
to change the SSS mission will be rapidly legislated.
In the secret planning meeting document, the next steps strongly
recommended by SSS Acting Director Brodsky were:
1. "Promptly" redefine the SSS Mission to draft men and women up to
age 34 for skills, and deliver them within 90 days or sooner to the
Department of Defense. Program a massive database to be ready to enter
millions of names of those registering their critical skills.
2. Expand mission to deliver personnel in skills draft to the
Department of Homeland Security and other agencies, including FEMA,
NSC, Border Patrol, INS, Customs, Corporation for National Service,
Public Health Service and other federal, state and local government
agencies.
3. Form interagency task force to provide Administration with
recommendation on this skills draft for the entire DHS and the rest of
the government.
4. Obtain White House Statement of Administration Policy on the future
of the SSS.
5. Be prepared to market the skills draft, raising the non-combat age
to 34 and the drafting of women to the Armed Services and
Appropriations Committee.
This proposed expansion of the draft, forcing all people under 35 to
register with the SSS, man or woman, is primarily proposed, according
to the document, because the cost of providing contract professionals,
like computer network specialists, would be "prohibitive." In this
way, the proposed Skills Draft would help preserve Bush's massive tax
cuts for the wealthy by lowering the massive budget deficits."
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It's very clear the Republicans and their NeoCon counterparts badly
need a draft in order to continue sending Americas young men and women
into foreign meat grinders which will continously destroy life in
favor of wars for oil and profits in the Middle East. While this
takes place, the same Republicans and NeoCons will silmultaneously lie
to the American people about the reasons for going to war in the first
place.
Charles Duelfer, the weapons inspector hired by the Bush
Administration, said Saddam had NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. While
Americas young men and women were dying over a lie, Halliburton,
controlled by the Republicans and NeoCons, made a killing off of war
profits.
These types of staged wars designed by the Republicans and NeoCons
will continue to infuriate residents of the Middle East, breed more
terrorists and kill more of America's young men and women in combat.
As long as the Republicans and NeoCons continue to wage wars, the
Middle East will only become a larger and more deadly Pandora's Box.
If you want to die in phony wars for oil and profits created by the
Republicans and NeoCons, then by all means vote for George W. Bush.
Unfortunately, the only way you'll wake up to the truth is while
you're being turned into 100 pounds of exploding sloppy joes.
If you want to live a productive life in freedom from Republican
greed, death and destruction and be able to raise children, then vote
for John Kerry.
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