[atomicpossum]

This is as big or bigger than Rathergate. CBS has been taken in my an ancient internet hoax.

They were not taken in-- this story is easy to disprove. This was a deliberate hit piece.

[Montfort]

This draft hoax angers me, because the bills that have been introduced have been sponsored only by Democrats. Unless I am mistaken, not a single Republican has agreed to be a useful idiot and sign onto one of these bills. This in itself is a bit surpising, considering the number of RINOs in Congress. Perhaps it is because most of the RINOs are in the Senate, and perhaps the bills have only been introduced in the house. I don't know for sure.

On the other hand, it does not help that the DOD is calling people back into the armed forces and using stop loss orders to keep lots of people from leaving who might want to leave. I understand why these people are so valuable and why it would be so useful to have them stay in the services. That is not the point.

These actions make the wild rumors of a draft seem like they might have some kernel of truth in them. And since so much of this has been handled by word-of-mouth, it is hard to set the record straight. CBS may have actually done Bush a service by getting this into the open where we can rebut it.