this calls for the 'aww not this sh*t again' picture.
The only proposals for reinstating the draft have been made by DEMOCRATS in order to scare voters.
Period.
Oh, brother.
Only stupid people fall for this crap. The Pentagon has been on record as saying they don't need the draft. They don't want the draft. They are MORE than meeting recruitment drives.
Now THIS is a troll post. Mine was just a dumb mistake.
It is total BS...two bills are being floated by Dems, but they even admit that it is political in nature and the bills will go nowhere. I will go out and find my last post on the subject and post it here.
It's complete BS. There are no plans for a draft and the only (mostly unsupported) bills in Congress are sponsored and backed solely by Dems the likes of Rangal(sp??). Just another scare tactic.
I know some nice gentlemen from Nigeria who would like to reward you handsomely if you help them put $16 million in your bank account...
HR 163 was proposed by a group of liberal Democrats so that they can say that it was introduced. It is not "winding it's way" through either chamber of Congress, it is tabled in a committee and doesn't have a snowballs chance in a Houston summer of making it out of committee alive.
Scare tactics, fake memos, and outright lies are all the Democrats have to offer the American people.
I think the posting of unsourced e-mails has been discouraged.
I am not aware of a Republican who wants to see the draft return.
I am aware of Democrat voters who oppose Bush because "he'll bring back the draft". Dems are idjits, you see.
The only thing you need to know about this bill:
It's sponsored by Charlie Rangel
My highschool age kids have heard this and give it some credit, and so does their mother to some extent.
Put yourself in their shoes. When you were 18 the thought of the draft could be pretty scary.
This is, as earlier posters have said, DNC disinformation of the worst kind, but it's effective, unfortunately.
Kind of like the phone calls to seniors saying that Bush will chop their social security. Maybe they don't believe it, maybe they're confused, but it IS pretty scary.
The Democrats are scum.
"by Unknown August 11th, 2004"
Your first clue.
In related news, Bill Clinton just bought a house in Montreal.
Snopes is a wonderful site: http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/draft.asp
Yeah, and it's smart to rob a bank in broad daylight because everyone will be too busy looking at the broad daylight.
Listen. There is no draft.
No one besides the Democrats wants to discuss reinstating the draft.
Let it go.
The bills are not being pushed. It's quite true that the two bills mentioned would require both men and women aged 18 through 25 to perform a two-year period of "national service," which incidentally could be either military or non-military service. But the bills are sponsored only by Democrats, and there's not the slightest evidence that the Bush administration is pushing for them, quietly or otherwise.
One bill is HR 163 , whose principle sponsor is Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York. It has 14 co-sponsors, all of them Democrats in a Congress controlled by Republicans. The bill was dead on arrival: it sits in a House subcommittee with no hearings or votes scheduled and no action expected.
In fact, Rangel told FactCheck.org through his spokesman Emile Milne that even he isn't pushing for passage, let alone Bush (emphasis added):
Rep. Rangel: I'm not pushing this bill . It's up to the President to come to me when he needs it.
The identical Senate bill, S. 89 , introduced by Democratic Sen. Ernest Hollings, and also was DOA. Not one other senator has co-sponsored it. It also sits in committee with no action scheduled or expected.
Both bills in question were drawn up before the Iraq war started, mostly to make a political point. Rangel said he acted to highlight Democratic objections to use of military force against Saddam Hussein. He wrote , "I truly believe that decision-makers who support war would more readily feel the pain of conflict and appreciate the sacrifice of those on the front lines if their children were there, too."
Draft Fears Fueled by Inaccurate E-mails
They are not even trying to hide the fact that they are trying to scare-monger the younger folks.
None too swift, are you?
Good Lord, just look at who is sponsoring and co-sponsoring it. It reads like a list the biggest bunch of Bush haters in the House and Senate. Then go to the status. Both of them have been buried in committee for over a year and a half.
2 problems....
The Republicans don't want the draft. They want people who are willing to be there, which the draft certainly won't produce 100%...
Secondly, Rangel came up with this crap. Ignore it.....hes a moron anyway....