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US Preparing for Military Draft in Spring 2005/ planned on bombing Iraq day of 9/11
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| DaveSZ |
My brother emailed me this today:
http://www.vancouver.indymedia.org/...4/01/105146.php
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US Preparing for Military Draft in Spring 2005
by Adam Stutz • Wednesday January 28, 2004 at 09:50 AM
The current agenda of the US federal government is to reinstate the draft in order to staff up for a protracted war on "terrorism." Pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills S 89 and HR 163) would time the program so the draft could begin at early as Spring 2005 -- conveniently just after the 2004 presidential election!
Reinstatement of the draft
Dear Friends and Family,
I urge you to read the article below on the current agenda of the federal government to reinstate the draft in order to staff up for a protracted war on "terrorism."
Pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills S 89 and HR 163) would time the program so the draft could begin at early as Spring 2005 -- conveniently just after the 2004 presidential election! But the administration is quietly trying to get these bills passed NOW, so our action is needed immediately. Details and links follow.
If voters who currently support U.S. aggression abroad were confronted with the possibility that their own children or grandchildren might not have a say about whether to fight, many of these same voters might have a change of mind. (Not that it should make a difference, but this plan would among other things eliminate higher education as a shelter and would not exclude women -- and Canada is no longer an option.)
Please send this on to all the parents and teachers you know, and all the aunts and uncles, grandparents, godparents.... And let your children know -- it's their future, and they can be a powerful voice for change! Please also write to your representatives to ask them why they aren't telling their constituents about these bills -- and write to newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why they're not covering this important story.
The Draft*
$28 million has been added to the 2004 Selective Service System (SSS) budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as early as June 15, 2005. SSS must report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation. Please see website: http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html to view the SSS Annual Performance Plan - Fiscal Year 2004.
The Pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide.. Though this is an unpopular election year topic, military experts and influential members of Congress are suggesting that if Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan [and a permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.
http://www.informationclearinghouse...article5146.htm
Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and H.R. 163 forward this year, entitled the Universal National Service Act of 2003, "To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons [age 18--26] in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes." These active bills currently sit in the Committee on Armed Services.
Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those from the Vietnam era remember. College and Canada will not be options. In December 2001, Canada and the US signed a "Smart Border Declaration," which could be used to keep would-be draft dodgers in. Signed by Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Manley, and US Homeland Security Director, Gov. Tom Ridge, the declaration involves a 30-point plan which implements, among other things, a "pre-clearance agreement" of people entering and departing each country. Reforms aimed at making the draft more equitable along gender and class lines also eliminates higher education as a shelter. Underclassmen would only be able to postpone service until the end of their cur-rent semester. Seniors would have until the end of the academic year.
*This article by Adam Stutz is from the "What's Hot Off the Press" column of the newsletter of Project Censored, a media research group at Sonoma State University that tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list (more than 20 years running) of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported, or self-censored by the country's major national news media. The mission of Project Censored is "to educate people about the role of independent journalism in a democratic society and to tell The News That Didn't Make the News and why."
"What's Hot Off the Press" includes student synopses of articles currently being investigated for inclusion in the next Project Censored report. For more info and/or to receive Project Censored's newsletter, go to http://www.projectcensored.org, or email [censored]@sonoma.edu
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm..._retaliation_dc
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Ex-Advisor Says Bush Eyed Bombing of Iraq on 9/11
Fri Mar 19, 7:20 PM ET Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo!
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former White House anti-terrorism advisor says the Bush administration considered bombing Iraq (news - web sites) in retaliation after Sept. 11, 2001 even though it was clear al Qaeda had carried out the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web sites).
Richard Clarke, who headed a cybersecurity board that gleaned intelligence from the Internet, told CBS "60 Minutes" in an interview to be aired on Sunday he was surprised administration officials turned immediately toward Iraq instead of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden (news - web sites).
"They were talking about Iraq on 9/11. They were talking about it on 9/12," Clarke says.
Clarke said he was briefing President Bush (news - web sites) and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld among other top officials in the aftermath of the devastating attacks.
"Rumsfeld was saying we needed to bomb Iraq. ... We all said, 'but no, no. Al Qaeda is in Afghanistan (news - web sites)," recounts Clarke, "and Rumsfeld said, 'There aren't any good targets in Afghanistan and there are lots of good targets in Iraq."'
Clarke, an advisor to four presidents, left his position in February 2003 after the White House transferred functions of the cybersecurity board to Homeland Security.
Clarke's comments are the latest to raise the question of the Bush administration's focus on overthrowing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, fired in a shake-up of Bush's economic team in December 2002, told "60 Minutes" in an interview aired in January he never saw any evidence Iraq had weapons of mass destruction -- Bush's main justification for going to war.
O'Neill also charged that Bush entered office intent on invading Iraq and ousting its leader, Saddam Hussein.
"I think they wanted to believe that there was a connection" between Iraq and al Qaeda, Clarke tells "60 Minutes."
"But the CIA (news - web sites) was sitting there, the FBI (news - web sites) was sitting there, I was sitting there, saying, 'We've looked at this issue for years. For years we've looked and there's just no connection,"' says Clarke.
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What idiots.
Hello indentured servitude. |
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| Vlad |
In the words of Eric Cartman:
The US Government can lick my hairy balllz. |
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| Chefy912 |
| God i ing hate bush hes so retarded, if this draft gets started that means im gonna have to ing go, I HAVE NEVER agreed with bush in any of his decisions EVER, HES SO RETARDED, hes such a conceeded that all he does is think about himself, im sincere when i say this, If he died, I wouldn't care. If John Kerry doesnt win, Im gonna kill someone:whip: :whip: :whip: :mad: |
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| bubbleravegirl |
| wait...being drafted to BASIC and being fit to serve are two different things...i mean, u still have to pass BASIC in order to be sent right? they cant just throw EVERYONE into the war right? |
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| Miss Bliss |
http://www.dior.whs.mil/mmid/M05/hst0309.pdf
As of September 30, 2003, the US has 1.2 million active troops in the USA.
Over 100,000 in Europe and Russia. 100,000 in East Asia and the Pacific. Over 7,000 in Africa and the Near East. Almost 2,000 in the Central and South Americas. 25,000 counted "undistributed." (180,000 participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom alone)
This adds up to about 1.5 million American troops active and available worldwide.
How much more do they think we need? |
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| DaveSZ |
It looks like Iraq will be the Vietnam of our generation unfortunately.
Here's what Bush's teacher at Harvard says about him:
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http://blog.johnkerry.com/blog/arch...01416.html#more
Posted by: MarchedwithKerry on March 20, 2004 11:36 AM
REPOST FOR YOUR INFO
BUSH'S TEACHER AT HARVARD UNLOADS:
"At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class, he declared that "people are poor because they are lazy." He was opposed to labor unions, social security, environmental protection, Medicare, and public schools.
To him, the antitrust watch dog, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities Exchange Commission were unnecessary hindrances to "free market competition." To him, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was "socialism."
Recently, President Bush's Federal Appeals Court Nominee, California's Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown, repeated the same broadside at her Senate hearing. She knew that her pronouncement would please President Bush and Karl Rove and their Senators. President Bush and his brain, Karl Rove, are leading a radical revolution of destroying all the democratic political, social, judiciary, and economic institutions that both Democrats and moderate Republicans had built together since Roosevelt's New Deal. " Yoshi Tsurumi, Glocom Platform, 03.01.04
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Chefy912
God i ing hate bush hes so retarded, if this draft gets started that means im gonna have to ing go, I HAVE NEVER agreed with bush in any of his decisions EVER, HES SO RETARDED, hes such a conceeded that all he does is think about himself, im sincere when i say this, If he died, I wouldn't care. If John Kerry doesnt win, Im gonna kill someone:whip: :whip: :whip: :mad: |
ill second that.. exept for the killing of someone of course:tongue2
but you are right, he is an idiot |
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| IamNotM2 |
1 The original article this was taken from is at least 18 months old.
2.This isn't what you think...
These bills were brought forth by a rep who doesn't actually want the draft reinstated...he thought that by bringing this foward some rich politicians would get scared abotu their kids serving in the military and would therefore end the war... |
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| DaveSZ |
I hope you're right, but I feel it in my bones that there will be a draft and more wars with Bush. I don't know about Kerry, but I would hope not.
Let's all hope Iraq turns out ok, or we're all ed. |
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| Vlad |
All? No!
If anyone comes to my door... I hope they dont think Im coming without a fight. Id rather be put in jail, than join the army. |
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| Taub |
| i am going to break both of my legs and then i am going to mexico |
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