Moves to bring back the draft.

[Malacasta]

I don’t know much about this website, but the following is probably pertinent to quite a few Threshers regarding moves to possibly reintroduce the draft.

Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year, http://www.hslda.org/legislation/na...s89/default.asp 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."

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/...ua_congressorg

[Blog]

Its all politics, the US armed forces is meeting its recruiting and has been for a while. Some politician figured out it could be a way to change minds about Iraq so they started making noise about it. The armed forces probably say there is no need for a draft, but I'm too lazy to go look it up.

I'm betting the bill is either completely misrepresented, or various positions on it are. If a draft was planned, it would be all over everything, I can't see the press letting that slide.

[Malacasta]

I've done a bit more google searching and found out a few more things:

-The bill isn't really misrepresented, you can read it here:
http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.163:
-The bill was introduced to congress on 1/7/2003
-The bill was has not had any major action since 2/3/2003
-May 04 has seen a lot of articles published stating that it will be introduced by June 05, but I can’t find anything at all to verify this. Though there are a few comments about the draft boards getting new funding (which again is old news).
-It might be that the Nader camp is pushing this barrow, because some of the articles I read say that many Democrats and Republicans are not hostile to the bill (including Kerry/Bush).