All credit goes to DUer Dems Will Win, who has been posting for some time now on the draft. Here's links to some of the previous threads started by Dems Will Win.
*note* - I only searched the General Discussion archives back to March 10th of this year using Dems Will Win in the search field)
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Parents--Be Aware! No Child Left Behind Act gives your kid's name to Army March 10, 2004
You can opt out if you request it, but no one knows this!
This is the real reason Bush passed No Cannon Fodder Left Behind because it creates list Selective Service can compare with to check draft registration compliance.
http://www.bendbulletin.com/news//story.cfm?story_no=12... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1216735-----
Impending Military DRAFT Timeline (must read): BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05 March 15, 2004
The following timeline gives you the main events indicating the resumption of the military draft. According to this, the draft will be needed to maintain troop levels in Iraq past March 2005, barring double deployments. $28 million is allocated by the Selective Service to reduce activation time from the current 8 months to 75 days by March 31, 2005. If Bush asks Congress on April 1, 2005 to reinstate conscription, the first Draft Lottery could be June 15, 2005. The first Conscientious Objectors would start the induction process 21 days later. A Medical Draft and a new Skills Specific Draft would also be activated automatically and over 3 million doctors and nurses must then register by May 1, 2005. If the DRAFT is activated, tens of thousands of programmers and computer experts under age 45 will be immediately drafted in the new Skills Specific Draft to code Star Wars missile tracking software so Bush can put the "BIG STICK" 2Mw Airborne Laser into operation (this thing almost works already!). Several thousand linguists and engineers would then also be drafted immediately in 2005 under this new SSPDS (getting ready to be passed by Congress after the election). Kerry has outlined how he would be able to add 40,000 active-duty troops and avoid having to reinstate the draft, btw.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1234107-----
NEW SF Chron article on Special Skills DRAFT! Be Prepared, programmers! March 15, 2004
'Special skills draft' on drawing board
Computer experts, foreign language specialists lead list of military's needs
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/03... Washington -- The government is taking the first steps toward a targeted military draft of Americans with special skills in computers and foreign languages.
The Selective Service System has begun the process of creating the procedures and policies to conduct such a targeted draft in case military officials ask Congress to authorize it and the lawmakers agree to such a request.
Richard Flahavan, a spokesman for the Selective Service System, said planning for a possible draft of linguists and computer experts had begun last fall after Pentagon personnel officials said the military needed more people with skills in those areas.
"Talking to the manpower folks at the Department of Defense and others, what came up was that nobody foresees a need for a large conventional draft such as we had in Vietnam," Flahavan said. "But they thought that if we have any kind of a draft, it will probably be a special skills draft."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1234416-----
DRAFT Timeline -- (must read) Shows how Bush plans June 15, 2005 LOTTERY March 21, 2004
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1263938-----
Selective Service SCRUBS 2nd BOARD AD, puts up DRAFT denial statement! March 28, 2004
THEY SCRUBBED THE SECOND DRAFT BOARD RECRUITMENT AD RIGHT ON THE HOME PAGE!) AND PUT THIS STATEMENT UP:
http://www.sss.gov -snip-
Notwithstanding recent stories in the news media and on the Internet, Selective Service is not getting ready to conduct a draft for the U.S. Armed Forces -- either with a special skills or regular draft. Rather, the Agency remains prepared to manage a draft if and when the President and the Congress so direct. This responsibility has been ongoing since 1980 and is nothing new. Further, both the President and the Secretary of Defense have stated on more than one occasion that there is no need for a draft for the War on Terrorism or any likely contingency, such as Iraq. Additionally, the Congress has not acted on any proposed legislation to reinstate a draft. Therefore, Selective Service continues to refine its plans to be prepared as is required by law, and to register young men who are ages 18 through 25.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1301999-----
The DRAFT is Coming -- Alternet article (must read) March 28, 2004
The Coming Draft
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18225 By Connor Freff Cochran, AlterNet
March 25, 2004
In 1973, forced conscription ended in favor of an all-volunteer military. As the gap between the capacity of America's armed forces and the demands of current deployment widens, the likelihood of a reinstated draft grows.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1302508-----
Special Skills DRAFT moves from planning to "groundwork", 20-44 beware! April 7, 2004
Agency initiates steps for selective draft
Congress shows little support for effort to draw skilled Americans
By ERIC ROSENBERG
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON -- The government is taking the first steps toward a targeted military draft of Americans with special skills in computers and foreign languages.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is adamant that he will not ask Congress to authorize a draft, and officials at the Selective Service System, the independent federal agency that would organize any conscription, stress that the possibility of a so-called "special skills draft" is remote.
Nonetheless, the agency has begun the process of creating the procedures and policies to conduct such a targeted draft in case military officials ask Congress to authorize it and the lawmakers agree to such a request.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1361862-----
From SSS Web site, the process of how a DRAFT would be reinstated April 17, 2004
(Boldng is mine, and the Medical Draft law mentioned has already been passed by Congress. The FY 2004 Performance Plan,
http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html , takes the 6 months mentioned below--the doc below is from a couple of years ago--down to 75 days by March 31, 2005 and gears up for the first time in three decades the Alternative Service by that same date.)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1427423-----
Bush's Selective Service to soon conduct NATIONWIDE DRAFT "EXERCISES"! April 17, 2004
According to this official SSS doc, the entire system is going to go through the biggest "Readiness Exercise" this summer since the DRAFT ended in the 70s!
http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html In every DRAFT BOARD REGION, the following will occur this summer and fall:
1. A single, national test DRAFT LOTTERY will be held and numbers on balls actually taken out of the jar and assigned to the 365 birthdays of the year.
2. Phony Draft notices will be sent out to volunteers from all regions.
3. Those Volunteers from all regions will then report to their center and strip down to their underwear for the fabled medical exam.
4. Those passing the exam and receiving no deferments will be sent induction notices from all regions.
5. CO volunteers will plead their cases to the local and regional appeals boards and if they are granted status, assigned to work for non-military employers pre-identified in all regions (unless they are military COs).
6. Male and female doctors and nurses will also be called for induction to test the MEDICAL DRAFT (3.4 million eligible age 20-44). No Medical deferments, so no exam will be conducted. Appeals Boards will hear from Medical Draft volunteers to decide phony "essential community service" appeals.
Most ominously, the SSS is making ready the Alternative Service, which has lain dormant for decades, and is actually identifying the employers needed for those who win non-military CO status. The first induction of COs right now looks like July 6, 2005, once the GOP Congress approves on April 1, 2005.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1427051-----
The 3 main reasons indicating Bush is reactivating the DRAFT in 2005 April 20, 2004
3 main things to keep in mind. There are 3 obstacles keeping the draft from being immediately activated. Bush is spending $28 million this year to remove all three.
1. The draft is currently 6 months work away from activation. The FY 2004 Plan, which holds Nationwide Readiness Exercises this summer and even has a sample lottery drawing and the issuance of sample medical exam orders, brings that activation time down to just 75 days by March 31, 2005. The first lottery of 20 year-olds could be June 15, 2005.
2. The SSS is filling the 10,000 empty draft board slots that have been allowed to occur over the last 20 or so years. Ted Rall says Spring 2005 is the goal for filling all vacancies. This of course is needed to activate.
3. The SSS is gearing up the Alternative Service for the first time since the draft ended in the 70s. THis is the third obstacle that must be hurdled before the whole system is up and running. The SSS is even drawing up the Standard Operating Procedure manuals that will govern and monitor Conscientious Objectors' attendance at their non-military AS jobs, specifically identifying the types of organizations that qualify in each local area for AS work. The SSS is also drawing up the MOU's, the Memo if Understanding between the AS and the CO employer, documents that can be signed that will govern the ASW (Alternative Service Worker). The AS must report to the SSS Director that the AS is ready to induct within 96 days of March 31, 2005 (July 6, 2005).
With these 3 obstacles removed, if re-elected Bush will almost certainly ask Congress on April 1, 2005 to reinstate conscription. Congress then votes on a Trigger Resolution, no new bill is needed and the DRAFT is automatically activated for June 15.
Here is the Alternative Service being reactivated in the official SSS doc,
http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html Note this is all part of a multi-year plan that ends in the draft being 75 days away and Alternative Service 96 days away from March 31, 2005.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1445887-----
If Bush wins, there's only 343 DAYS LEFT before he reinstates the DRAFT! April 23, 2004
For 6 months now, I have been predicting that Bush will ask Congress on April 1, 2005 for the reinstatement of the DRAFT. "We're not going to cut and run from Iraq--that's why I'm asking you to reauthorize conscription", he'll say--and they'll give it to him or be unpatriotic.
The SSS FY 2004 plan reduces the DRAFT ACTIVATION time down from the current 6 months to just 75 days by March 31, 2005. On that day the SSS must report to the Director that the whole machinery is oiled up and ready to go by June 15, 2005.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1461801-----
The DRAFT - Rummy: "not at the present time", WH: "not at this time" April 26, 2004
When asked about the DRAFT, the White House said:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-livit25377139... -snip-
"That is just not something that's under consideration at this time," Scott McClellan told the White House press corps on Thursday.
A draft "is not useful to do at the present time," Rumsfeld told a meeting of newspaper editors earlier in the week.
"The president has said he will take the advice regarding the need for troops from the military commanders responsible for winning the war against terror," White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card said Monday, according to The Washington Post. "We have an all volunteer military in this country and it serves us very well. I have heard no call from any of our military leaders for a return to the draft."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1476791-----
Col. Smittle: "There's going to be a draft...after elections, spring 2005" April 26, 2004
http://www.wcpo.com/news/2004/local/04/21/draft.html There's going to be a draft. You can't simply keep up this combat tempo, you're looking at a possibility the draft, after elections maybe spring of 2005," said Colonel Dean Smittle, Veteran, Military Analyst.
Smittle, 9News military analyst, believes it's not a matter of if there's going to be a draft but when and he said it's going to be more specific than just sending troops to combat.
"Drafting for a specific person or persons for example, computer technology, linguists, translators, civil affairs people so they're looking at a mission specific draft," Smittle said.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1474233-----
GOP Senator: DRAFT may be needed as Terror War will last 25 years! April 29, 2004
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename... U.S. weighs the return of military conscription
War on terror could last 25 years: Lawmaker
Pentagon needs billions more in cash for Iraq
TIM HARPER
WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON—A war with no end in sight is draining money and manpower from the Bush administration — and sparking renewed debate about a compulsory military draft in the United States.
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http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2004/04-05-2004/insid... "Special Skills Draft" in the Offing?
"The government is taking the first steps toward a targeted military draft of Americans with special skills in computers and foreign languages," reported the March 13 San Francisco Chronicle. "The Selective Service System has begun the process of creating the procedures and policies to conduct such a targeted draft in case military officials ask Congress to authorize it and the lawmakers agree to such a request."
According to SSS spokesman Richard Flahavan, targeted conscription "is strictly in the planning stage. We want to gear up and make sure we are capable of providing since that’s the more likely need" than a full-fledged general draft.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1497072-----
SSS now planning registration in programmers, linguists & engineers DRAFT! May 2, 2004
'Special skills draft' on drawing board
Eric Rosenberg
San Francisco Chronicle
March 13, 2004
http://www.notinourname.net/war/skills-draft-14mar04.ht... -snip-
Richard Flahavan, a spokesman for the Selective Service System, said planning for a possible draft of linguists and computer experts had begun last fall after Pentagon personnel officials said the military needed more people with skills in those areas.
-snip-
The agency already has in place a special system to register and draft health care personnel ages 20 to 44 in more than 60 specialties if necessary in a crisis. According to Flahavan, the agency will expand this system to be able to rapidly register and draft computer specialists and linguists, should the need ever arise. But he stressed that the agency had received no request from the Pentagon to do so.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1514623-----
SECRET SSS proposal--MILITARY DRAFT WILL BE UP TO 34, TAKE WOMEN!! May 12, 2004
Selective Service Eyes Women's Draft
By Eric Rosenberg
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Saturday 01 May 2004
The proposal would also require registration of critical skills.
WASHINGTON -- The chief of the Selective Service System has proposed registering women for the military draft and requiring that young Americans regularly inform the government about whether they have training in niche specialties needed in the armed services.
The proposal, which the agency's acting Director Lewis Brodsky presented to senior Pentagon officials just before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, also seeks to extend the age of draft registration to 34 years old, up from 25.
The Selective Service System plan, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, highlights the extent to which agency officials have planned for an expanded military draft in case the administration and Congress would authorize one in the future.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/050304_women_... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1584291-----
How to Stay Out Of the Military (must read) -- from Dems Will Win May 12, 2004
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1586554-----
SSS "DESIGNING PROCEDURES" to REGISTER ALL under 35 for DRAFT - must read! May 16, 2004
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1611896-----
Selective Service to make huge Skills database of everyone under 35! May 20, 2004
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/171522_draft01.h... Flahavan said the agency has begun designing procedures for a targeted registration and draft of people with computer and language skills, in case military officials and Congress authorize it.
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At present, the Selective Service is authorized to register only young men and they are not required to inform the government about any professional skills. Separately, the agency has in place a special registration system to draft health care personnel in more than 60 specialties into the military if necessary in a crisis.
Some of the skill areas where the armed forces are facing "critical shortages" include linguists and computer specialists, the agency said. Americans would then be required to regularly update the agency on their skills until they reach age 35.
Individuals proficient in more than one critical skill would list the skill in which they have the greatest degree of competency.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1632432-----
Col. Hackworth: 75% of some units leave Army. DRAFT inevitable under Bush May 27, 2004
Voting with Their Feet
“We're stretched too thin,” reports a sergeant. “Our CO (commanding officer) admitted this to us during our tour in Afghanistan. He also admitted that morale is down due to the extending of tours. Yet the Pentagon insists there’s no problem with morale. We lost over 75 percent of our unit when we got back. I know other units are having the same problems. If this trend continues, we won’t have enough people to defend this country when the need arises.”
An Apache pilot in Korea says, “It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the Army is going to be losing a lot of people as soon as they get the chance to vote with their feet.”
I’m sure the brass have all the paperwork to back up their propaganda campaign. But as far as the old saw that “figures don't lie” goes, I’ve been around long enough to know that liars figure and soldiers know the truth. So I’ll go with the soldiers.
Unless so-called Army short tours in the badlands of Iraq and Afghanistan become manageable based on the number of troops available – right now the Army is trying to do the work of 14 divisions with 10 under-strength, active-duty divisions – we’ll see a mass exodus from the Green Machine and the inevitable return of the draft.
http://www.sftt.org/cgi-bin/csNews/csNews.cgi?database=... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1675177-----
Bush spending millions to cut DRAFT ACTIVATION time from 193 to 75 DAYS!! June 9, 2004
This summer Bush is reducing DRAFT ACTIVATION time by having the SSS conduct NATIONWIDE EXERCISES to test the whole system, even to the point of filling all DRAFT BOARD vacancies and gearing up the Alternative Service for COs for the first time in three decades. The SSS this summer is finalizing the 2 documents needed for the AS to start up, the SOP identifying ASW employers and the MOUs those employers will have to sign to get those cheap, unassigned workers. THis is the last essential piece that had to be activated before the March 31 report.
http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html LOOK FOR THE HIDDEN BOMBSHELLS IN THIS DOC. RIGHT NOW THE SSS HAS TO BE READY WITHIN 193 DAYS OF REAUTHORIZATION THROUGH A SIMPLE TRIGGER RESOLUTION (NO NEW DRAFT BILL NEEDED). ON MARCH 31, 2005, THE SSS HAS TO TELL THE PREZ THEY ARE READY TO CONSCRIPT WITHIN 75 DAYS.
GET IT? THAT'S JUNE 15, 2005 TO RUN THE FIRST LOTTERY.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1756684-----
Why CANADA is NOT an option to avoid the DRAFT: link to Smart Border Dec. June 12, 2004
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1777522-----
Secret 6-page Proposal outlines MASSIVE SKILLS DRAFT DATABASE, 34 YRS, M/F June 14, 2004
If you are under 35 and have one of a few hundred jobs that will be listed, and that's whats on your IRS form as your occupation--YOU WILL BE FORCED TO REGISTER FOR THE SKILLS DRAFT. MAN OR WOMAN, AGE UP TO 34!!
(Probably by May 1, 2005 if Bush is not re-defeated. Kerry has a NO-DRAFT PLAN, really a NO INVADE SYRIA/IRAN/LEBANON/SOMALIA PLAN)
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Flahavan said the agency has begun designing procedures for a targeted registration and draft of people with computer and language skills, in case military officials and Congress authorize it.
At present, the Selective Service is authorized to register only young men and they are not required to inform the government about any professional skills. Separately, the agency has in place a special registration system to draft health care personnel in more than 60 specialties into the military if necessary in a crisis.
Some of the skill areas where the armed forces are facing "critical shortages" include linguists and computer specialists, the agency said. Americans would then be required to regularly update the agency on their skills until they reach age 35.
Individuals proficient in more than one critical skill would list the skill in which they have the greatest degree of competency.
-SNIP-
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/171522_draft01.h... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1789603-----
Draft Exemptions in modern DRAFT law June 14, 2004
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1789897-----
Now even Newsmax is predicting the DRAFT, Col. Ray (must read!) June 26, 2004
US Readies for DRAFT
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For sure, “The Selective Service System’s Annual Performance Plan for Fiscal Year 2004,” is a document that leaves the careful reader with anything but the impression of a sleepy agency drilling for a fire it knows will never flare.
By early next year, the government will be test firing a mobilization infrastructure of 56 state headquarters, 442 area offices, and 1,980 local boards.
Funding is in the coffers to kick off a rigorous “Area Office Prototype Exercise,” which will “test the activation process from SSS Lottery input to the issuance of First Armed Forces Examination Orders.”
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At the head of the busy-work list – a no-nonsense commitment to report to the president by March 31st, 2005 that the system is ready to roll full steam within 75 days, which would clear the decks for a first lottery by June 15th, 2005.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/6/24/1048... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1863373-----
Rove polls GOP Congressmen on the DRAFT! They give Bush their support July 10, 2004
Family Circle has an article on the DRAFT, "Could Your Child Be Drafted?" and I found this!
For example, last fall, Presidential advisor Karl Rove polled Republican members of Congress on how they felt about he draft. They said they’d support the president.
http://www.gjusa.com/news/pressReleaseDetails.jsp?id=41... The July 13 Issue. Very good article. Think they have been reading my threads!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1963128-----
Dems Will Win - Thank you for your ongoing concern and efforts to get the word out. Incredibly well done! :you definitely rock!:
Edit to add: My youngest sons are 20 and 17. and yes, I'm worried.
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