----- Original Message ----- From: "Dwayne Monroe" <idoru345 at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:50 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] The Draft Is Back
> Dennis Perrin posted:
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<http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=5834001&content_d
ir=ua_congressorg
> >
>
> from which...
>
> Pending Draft Legislation Targeted for Spring 2005
> The Draft will Start in June 2005
>
> There is pending legislation in the House and Senate
> (twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will time the
> program's initiation so the draft can begin at early
> as Spring 2005 -- just after the 2004 presidential
> election. The administration is quietly trying to get
> these bills passed now, while the public's attention
> is on the elections, so our action on this is needed
> immediately.
>
> $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.
> Selective Service must report to Bush on March 31,
> 2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for
> decades, is ready for activation. Please see website:
> www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html to view the sss
> annual performance plan - fiscal year 2004.
>
> [...]
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>
> Pedictable, though I recall some, a few months ago,
> expressing doubt this would happen.
>
> The question we should ask ourselves is this: if
> re-elected, what exactly will the Bush administration
> do with another four years? I believe the draft
> legislation provides a clue.
>
> Though knocked off-balance by unexpected events in
> Iraq - or, perhaps I should write 'events unexpected
> by the stupidly arrogant' since many people accurately
> predicted the current situation - the Bush admin
> appears to remain as impervious to corrective
> knowledge as a pile of stones. Oh, they try new
> things - the various twists and turns of Iraq policy
> are a good example of their attempts to innovate - but
> the underlying idea of each new plan is the same:
> we're right and we must control.
>
>
> How does this relate to the draft?
>
>
> I suspect, and this is hardly an original thought,
> that our Washington Empire Adventure Team is planning
> to continue the American Metalstorm Unprovoked
> Aggression Tour (subtitle: "it's not about the oil
> baby, it's about the power - okay, it's about both!")
> which has already visited Afghanistan and Iraq with
> great success.
>
> It's hard to imagine these fellows sitting quietly
> with a four-year-renewal, tending to the business of
> state (or state dismantling), lining the pockets of
> friends and striving to pass crazy laws declaring
> fetuses to be proto-citizens among other bits of
> strangeness. This is the work of weaklings, of
> visionless domestic politicians. No, none of this for
> our titans -- they're empire builders, paunchy Caesars
> in tailored suits.
>
> Four years is a long time to, as they might say, 'do
> nothing'. Something must be done with this time.
> Harrassing immigrants, examining shoes for semtex,
> standing in front of banners for photo-ops and giving
> speeches about god this or Jesus that is simply not
> enough.
>
> Not when Iran and Syria taunt the mightiest and most
> righteous power in the history of history with their
> troublesome, non-free marketized existence. And don't
> get our imperial boys and girls started on North
> Korea; they're just asking for some JDAM goodness.
>
> But it's tough to cross the Rubicon without legions.
>
> Which brings us to the draft....
>
>
>
>
> .d.
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