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last week's vice-presidential debate, in which the comments of Democrat John Edwards especially had a deja vu quality; the same words were heard from John Kerry five days earlier. A current inflammatory piece of gossip is the insinuation by Democrats that President Bush will restore the military draft if he is re-elected. The gossip was gaining steadier legs every day, mostly through the Internet, prompting concerned Republicans to bury it deep once and for all. A bill languishing from last year was called up in the House and dispatched on a 402-2 vote. "We're going to put a nail in...

Before the debates, Robert wrote a column about lies and myths Kerry has been telling, and wondered if he would be repeating these lies at the debate. Boy was he right.

The new United Nations Draft Card.

With explosions and gunfire echoing in the distance, the Marines in the observation post in downtown Ramadi know they are at war. They're just not sure who — or where — the enemy is. In restive Iraqi cities like Ramadi, the U.S. campaign to deny sanctuary to the insurgents consists of a daily assortment of hit-and-run exchanges, alleyway gunfights and nighttime raids. "They've taken the fight into the neighborhoods," says Captain Jeffrey Kenney, commander of Golf Company of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. "The hardest thing is to ID where the fire is coming from." The jarheads long for...

A little more than a year ago, an obscure Defense Department website called defendamerica.mil posted a routine notice from the Selective Service System (SSS) seeking to fill vacancies on the nation's 2,000 draft boards. The boards do little these days — the last draft ended 31 years ago — but they are maintained in case a cataclysmic event makes conscription necessary again. Few noticed the defendamerica posting, but it pinged around the Web and eventually helped create one of the most dubious e-mail phenomena since ads for penis enhancement: the rumor that if he is re-elected, President Bush plans to...

I heard it on Brit Hume's show last night. Charlie Rangel is trying to reinstate the draft. Leave it to the libral Democrats to come up with a cockeyed plan and then blame the Republicans (specifically Bush) for it.

Candidates trade Social Security policy accusations By MARSHA SHULER mshuler@theadvocate.com Capitol news bureau State Treasurer John Kennedy accused two of his U.S. Senate opponents on Monday of robbing the Social Security trust fund to pay for tax cuts for the rich. That and other accusations came flying as the four major candidates in the Nov. 2 Senate election squared off during the first of three statewide televised debates this month. U.S. Reps. David Vitter and Chris John voted for $1.3 trillion in tax cuts pushed by President Bush, Kennedy said. "Do you know where they got the money to fund...

Kerry Calls for Record Expansion in National Service Offers Affordable College for Young People Willing to Serve America For Immediate Release New York, NY - Stopping at New York's City College today, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry unveiled a critical new component of his "Compact with the Next Generation," his plan to engage more than 500,000 young Americans in service each year within a decade. The bold, new national initiative will offer young Americans affordable education in return for serving their country, and in keeping with Kerry's commitment to fiscal responsibility, will be fully paid for by the elimination of...

Punkvoter.com to Congress - Tell the truth about reinstating the draft and who is really fighting the war in Iraq. No matter how unpopular, tell the American people who is really going to fight the war. Young people will not let the issue of the draft or the facts that young people are dying everyday for a war they did not choose to fight! Don’t let Congress fool you into thinking millions of kids are signing up to support this war. “Congress brought up reinstating the draft legislation this week with only a few short days of session left...

Hysterical Kerry supporters such as former one-term senator Max Cleland and historical footnote Howard Dean keep claiming that, when re-elected, President Bush will reinstate the military draft. Clearly, the Democrats would love to scare some young males and their moms over to their column. They've even spread an e-mail scare citing legislation to bring back the draft. Informed Americans already know which party is behind those schemes. For everyone else, here are the facts: Charlie Rangel is the sponsor in the House, and lame duck Fritz Hollings is the sponsor in the Senate. Both are Democrats.

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Candidates deny it, but the issue keeps coming up The notice arrived on a hot August afternoon in 1967, bringing with it alternating waves of relief and trauma. For young men between the ages of 18 and 26, the notice needed no expanded definition. Officially, it was Selective Service System Form 252 and was titled "An order to report for induction." It began with these sobering words: "From the President of the United States: Greeting." The relief came because, after parrying with the system while holding a full-time job and trying to complete a graduate degree — and being single...

KERRY GRINCH You’re a flip-flop, Kerry Grinch; It’s “the wrong war and wrong time.” But you vote for the invasion While in protest you now chime, Kerry Grinch. You voted against funding and then for it, With logic sublime! You’re a waffler, Kerry Grinch; You would face Kim Jung alone And forget a coalition Yet its absence you bemoan Kerry Grinch. How can you enforce a treaty while he holds the throne? You’re a sly one, Kerry Grinch, You know you will need a Draft To fill your new two divisions Or did you just think us daft? Kerry Grinch....

Local papers do better job of finding truth behind Dem-inspired red herring Some people are so gullible that they believe the get-rich-quick e-mail that purportedly comes from relatives of deposed African dictators. Other people are so gullible that they've fallen for an e-mail hoax claiming that the military draft will be reinstated next spring. The media don't run stories that treat the African scam letters as possibly true, but the media have, unfortunately, not always been so accurate about the draft hoax. For example, on Sept. 29, the CBS Evening News showed its continuing disinterest in document authenticity by producing...

St. Louis (CNSNews.com) - Republicans had no sooner shot down rumors of a military draft when Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe warned a group of College Democrats on Friday that President Bush would call them up for duty if re-elected. "I know it's controversial to say it, but don't think for one second that if George Bush gets re-elected and we have another conflict in some other theater of the world, we're going to have to reinstitute the draft," McAuliffe said. "It is very controversial to say it, but it is what it is." McAuliffe spoke to about a hundred...

Rep. Pete Stark on Wednesday defended his vote -- on the losing side of a 402-2 House roll call -- for reinstating a military draft, a bill even its author no longer supported.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a joint statement from Bobby Muller, president of Alliance for Security and founder of Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, and Jehmu Greene, president of Rock the Vote, on an Annenberg Public Policy Center poll on the military draft: Today's poll by the respected Annenberg Public Policy Center is a clear example of why we need our Presidential candidates -- and Congressional candidates -- to take seriously the issues surrounding the draft. The public is looking at the facts and is simply not going to accept the fact that saying no to the...

As the body count in Iraq continues to rise and military enlistments at home continue to fall, there is ever more talk and fear of a return to a draft. For years, military sociologist Charlie Moskos has advocated a draft -- although his concept is really more of a three-tiered, mandatory national service system for young men and women. The first tier would be a draft into the combat forces that would be open to males only. "Many so-called feminists want to put women into the combat arms to advance gender equality," Moskos said. "And it's true, you'll never have...

So it appears no American kid will be receiving that dread letter anytime soon. You know the one. It brings greetings from Uncle Sam along with the news that whatever you had planned for the next few years, you'd better cancel it. Not going to happen. The draft is not coming back. Not that there was ever much chance it would. Still, even the specter of the possibility of the ghost of a chance was apparently enough to keep some of us up nights, walking the floors. So there was a palpable sigh of relief this week as a bill...