[TexKat]

Selective Service Plans 'Readiness' Military Draft Tests ping!

[Eagle of Liberty]

The agency is planning a comprehensive test -- not run since 1998

This is why I HATE Government-run programs. You mean to tell me that they didn't do a practice run after 9/11 "just in case"?

[randog]

The agency is planning a comprehensive test -- not run since 1998...

Wow, not since 1998? Geez, I wonder if the tubes will still fire up?

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[Post-Neolithic]

"Scott Campbell, the service's director for operations and chief information officer, cautioned that the "readiness exercise" does not mean the agency is gearing up to resume the draft"

Typical political mumbo-jumbo for, The draft is coming, and very soon.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Unless there is some other way to triple or quadruple our forces, lets get on with it.....time's a-wasting and the global jihad advances.

[DCPatriot]

Perhaps they're getting ready to respond to Iran & Friends.

[theDentist]

Bush insuring no Republican gets anywhere close to the White House for the next decade at least!

[SunkenCiv]

a comprehensive test -- not run since 1998

"...when Democrat Bill Clinton was in office." There, fixed it.

[MurryMom]

Even if the Bush administration doesn't support a draft, the Iraq War, the stress it's created on the military, the socioeconomic dispaprities it's laid bare, and all the rest has created a fairly unlikely coalition of folks who do want one.

The Bush administration's VA Secretary, Jim Nicholson, just said that our society would benefit from "replacing the all-volunteer force with a tough draft purged of the deferments that allowed many to avoid service in Vietnam." Meanehile, Mark Krikorian wants a draft so we have a bigger military to fight more awesome wars. And Charlie Rangel wants a draft so we have a more diverse military that will make it nearly politically impossible to fight any wars.

Meanwhile, I don't want a draft because, unlike Krikorian, Rangel, and Nicholson, my son would actually be vulnerable to it, so such a plan looks less like an awesome political theory abstraction and more like my son's life would be in the hands of the fools and knaves currently running our government.

I didn't feel this way about national service a few years ago, incidentally. But one effect of the Iraq War was to shred any illusions that our leaders are wise and prudent and take seriously the lives entrusted to their care.

[Gideon Reader]

**ACK!!!!**
The DEMOCRATS ARE PLANNING TO DRAFT YOUR CHILDREN AND FORCE THEM INTO A LIFE OF MILITARY SERVITUDE AND SEND THEM OFF TO FIGHT AND DIE ON FOREIGN SHORES, FOR ***OIL***!!!!!!!!! DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO SHED THE BLOOD OF AMERICAN POOR CHILDREN FOR OIL AND THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR!!!!

I wonder how those assholes like seeing it in print, because it will be there a LOT.

:~)

[samm1148]

Send out notices along with voter registration cards. See how "good citizens" there are versus pigs lining up for the federal trough.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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http://www.Freerepublic.com/~ALOHARONNIE

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[Lijahsbubbe]

This is a good time to start with the illegals that will be given citizenship soon.