Bush did not want to hear a question about Reservists on long deployments

[Dems Will Win]

being a back-door draft. That was Gibson's next question!

"Forget all this talk about a DRAFT!"

That's when Bush almost jumped Gibson and rudely turned away from him to yell some more at the audience.

[BayouBengal07]

1. We don't need to talk about the draft.

Bush put those rumours on the internets to rest.

[aldian159]

2. Wow

i feel better.

If bush says they're just internets rumors, it must be true.

[Dems Will Win]

3. How do these rumors on the Internets get started anyway??

Printable pdf: http: http://somnamblst.tripod.com/draftalert.pdf

In May, the Seattle Post Intelligencer published an article about a document they received through the Freedom of Information Act. It was revealed that the SSS is currently “designing procedures” for the implementation of a “Skills Draft” after holding a top-level meeting on it with Deputy Undersecretaries at the Defense Department. This draft would change the very mission of the Selective Service and require “virtually every young American”, male and female ages 18-34, to register for the Skills Draft and list all the occupations they are proficient in to fill labor shortages throughout nearly the entire government.

Here, for the first time, is the FOI document itself:

http://blatanttruth.org/selective_service091304.pdf

This document is real, having been acknowledged by the DoD and the SSS when they said no action is being taken on it at the present time, as reported:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/171522_draft01.html

Although Congress would have to approve new legislation to create a Skills Draft or reinstate the combat draft, Family Circle reported in its July 13 issue that Karl Rove has polled GOP members of Congress in September 2002 to see if they would support the President if he requests reinstatement. The Republicans said they would vote for the draft.

In addition, the SSS itself has said that it is “designing procedures” (Seattle PI, May 1, 2004) to implement the skills draft, meaning designing the compliance cards and the data fields needed to keep track of “virtually every young American” and their skills. Acting Director of the SSS Brodsky has also said the Skills Draft is the “top priority” of the Selective Service for 2004. The Issue Paper options include:

- Allow a non-combat draft for shortages in critical skills, without calling a combat draft.

- Fill labor shortages of all kinds throughout not only DoD but the Dept. of Homeland Security and other agencies, especially high-paying professionals like computer networking specialist or linguist.

- Create a single-point, all-inclusive database, in which every young person would be forced to send in a “self-declaration” of all of their critical skills, chosen from a long list of occupations like the Armed Forces Specialty Code. The usual penalties of imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine would apply to all non-registrants.

In the secret planning meeting document, the next steps strongly recommended by SSS Acting Director Brodsky were:

1. “Promptly” redefine the SSS Mission to draft men and women up to age 34 for skills, and deliver them within 90 days or sooner to the Department of Defense. Program a massive database to be ready to enter millions of names of those registering their critical skills.

2. Expand mission to deliver personnel in skills draft to the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies, including FEMA, NSC, Border Patrol, INS, Customs, Corporation for National Service, Public Health Service and other agencies.

3. Form interagency task force to provide Administration with recommendation on this skills draft for the entire government.

4. Obtain White House Statement of Administration Policy on the future of the SSS.

5. Be prepared to market the skills draft, raising the non-combat age to 34 and the drafting of women to the Armed Services and Appropriations Committee.

In contrast to this planning and preparation to create a targeted draft, Kerry plans to spend an additional $7 billion to strengthen the Volunteer Army in what is essentially a “No-Draft Plan”. Moreover, Kerry is strongly opposed to the neo-con plan revealed in Wes Clark’s book Winning Modern Wars, in which Clark was told by a senior Pentagon official that invasions of Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan and Somalia were planned and still to come over the next three years.

More: http://www.blatanttruth.org/draft.php

BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05

KERRY '04 = PNAC OUT THE DOOR!

For more Flyers: http://somnamblst.tripod.com/

[cliss]

4. Bush was such a bonehead last night.

Did anyone else notice? The way he talks. He can't even pronounce his words correctly. "It wudn't my idea..." "There's stuff on the Internets"... He cut off the ends of his words and in general butchered the English language last night.

I was so disgusted. I also noticed that as BeetleBrain was sitting on his chair, getting bull-whipped by Kerry, he looked up a few times at him. I noticed PURE, 100% fear etched on his face.

Kerry just towered above him. Kerry sounds educated. He can be articulate and command the english language.

Unlike Bonehead.

[troubleinwinter]

5. WHYYYYYYYYYYY

Does he speak like an ill-educated backwoods rube? (apologies to ill-educated backwoods rubes of good and noble heart)

He was educated in the East, and attended Yale and Harvard. It's not just his inability to construct a proper sentence, or to prounounce certain words, but that he can barley articulate simple, common words.

Lazy tongue? Lazy mind? WHATTTT????!!! :shrug: