Posted on 09/22/2004 6:44:48 PM PDT by watsonfellow
Friends,
In recent days an email has been making its way to millions of accounts claiming that were Bush to be re-elected, he would reinstitute the “draft”.
Let’s examine the facts, shall we?
"A draft? It's just not going to happen," said Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., a member of the House Armed Services Committee.
Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services personnel subcommittee, agreed: "There is very little support in Congress for reinstating the draft."
MISLEADING E-MAIL
Perhaps those comments will help steady the nerves of many Americans apparently rattled by an e-mail that is circulating nationwide. It says that legislation is pending in Congress that would reinstitute the draft for the first time since 1973, starting as early as next spring. It also says that the administration is "quietly trying to get these bills passed now, while the public's attention is on the elections."
There is a kernel of truth to the allegation -- there is a bill pending that would restart the draft. But the Bush administration opposes it, as do Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and the leadership of both the Democratic and Republican parties in Congress. Everyone remotely in a position to know is quite sure that the bill is going nowhere.
"I don't know anyone in the executive branch of the government who believes that it would be appropriate or necessary to reinstitute the draft," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in April.
The bill's primary sponsor is Rep. Charles Rangel, a liberal Democrat from New York who represents Harlem. Even he admitted that his bill won't pass. He said he introduced it to get people to discuss who is doing the fighting in Iraq...
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/07/rangel.draft/
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:H.R.163:
Learn the facts before you vote, don’t let the liars influence your vote.
what is the source for that text?
Ever been to the web site RatherBiased.com?
anybody here from the twin cities area worried about the draft or interested in debunking the email warning of it?
Ok O can accept that... I just was undecided about the issue. But in a time of war... if you were an elected official, would you consider using the selective service if our nation were in grave danger?
I fear a rouge country with nukes would sell a bomb or too to a suicidal muslim willing to be incinerated for the glory of Allah.
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