It doesn't matter that the bill died on the House floor.
The Sheep have been told that GWB will draft them all.
The Sheep have heard, and The Sheep will believe. That's what Sheep do.
Let's start our own email chain with the TRUTH. Please forward the following email to everyone you know:
Subject: MANDITORY Service for Young Americans
An email chain was recently started to scare young Americans into believing that Bush and the Republicans were planning to bring back the draft. That email even pointed to specific legislation in the works (S 89 and HR 163). The legislation does actually exist and it does call for 2 years of MANDITORY service for all people between the ages of 18 and 26. You can read about it here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:H.R.163:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:SN00089:
The only problem is that the legislation listed was actually introduced by DEMOCRATS (Charles Rangel and Ernest Hollings), not by the Republicans. The House Bill was cosponsored by 14 Democrats. Thankfully, Republicans in the House defeated the bill. In fact, the only people who actually voted for the bill were Democrats.
Democrats are now claiming those bills were just political statements and were not really serious attempts at reinstating a draft; however, John Kerry himself posted a plan on his website that also called for MANDITORY SERVICE for young Americans. Probably fearing political fallout from younger voters, that plan has been removed from John Kerry’s website. However, you can still see it listed on sites that archive older versions of other websites:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040210043828/www.johnkerry.com/issues/natservice/
President Bush and the Republicans have consistently said that they would not reinstate the draft. The only people who have proposed and supported mandatory service programs are John Kerry and the Democrats. If elected, Kerry and the Democrats are free to revive those old plans and try to enslave America’s youth in mandatory service programs. It’s time for America to know the truth about John Kerry and the Democrats.