CBS radio news leads top of the hour with the DRAFT issue and

[msongs]

guess what, they said the internet is being used to spread this story via blogs and an email campaign initiated by unknown sources!!!!!!!

shades of Karl Rove! yesssssssssssssssssssssssss.

The broadcast was at 9 pm Los Angeles time on KNX all news CBS station.
there was a quote from charles rangle on his draft bill (he said nobody would take it seriously), a Bush clip saying he would not ever bring back the draft, and a comment that nobody in politics is thinking of the draft as anything but bad medicine. However the draft "whisper campaign" is getting media attention.

we all know that BUSH CERTAINLY WOULD BRING BACK THE DRAFT despite his denials, because of his massive record of flip-flop lies.

Msongs
Riverside CA

PS - spread the draft meme everywhere you go and write thank you!

[neuvocat]

1. Its called the Grapevine effect.

True, there's a problem with unsubstantiated rumors but lets face it, the net has been a better source of information over the last four years than tv over the last 3 decades.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. Bush will have no choice but to bring it back

There's just no way to avoid it with what he's committed us to and God only knows what else he's got plans. <note to self: check PNAC>

The recruits are down. Our guard and reserve are stretched to the max (and who is ready to protect us on the home front?). Where are these bodies going to come from?

While the Republicans are countering with it being a bill authored by Democrats, it has Republican support for one thing. Also, I can't fault Rangle and other Dems for wanting to make sure that everyone is equal if there is a draft. No college deferments for Harvard and Yale, and tighter controls on agreements with other countries for those who have the money to put their kid on a private jet elsewhere in the world. If it's going to happen, it needs to be fair.

[daleo]

3. A draft to force people to fight in offensive wars could never be fair

By its very nature, this could never be fair, given that the purpose is the criminal invasion of foreign countries. A draft to support truly defensive actions is a different matter.

[David Zephyr]

4. Bully For CBS! As Fox Says, "Some Peope Say..."

Ha!

[OutInTheBack40]

5. Did they mention it is a bill by Democrats that is calling for the draft?

How did they spin it?

[murielm99]

7. That's DemocratIC.

I am a Democrat. Democrat is a noun, a proper noun. My party is the Democratic Party. Democratic is an adjective.

Don't you know the difference between an adjective and a noun?

[Sven77]

6. drafting both men and women, heres the bills

http://www.vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2004/01/105146.php

"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!"

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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 proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5146.htm

[FightingIrish]

8. I have two draft age sons

I have been dreading this since the Supreme Court put this lunacy in motion four years ago. I am terribly afraid that all the focus on the draft is not so much a campaign issue as a PR effort to get the country ready to accept the resumption of the draft after the election.

[Carolab]

9. I tried to post this on the freeper site

they revoked my posting privilege

Typical--they are over there saying that Dems want a draft. What a bunch of losers. They are oblivious to the fact that they are planning to vote for a draft with a vote for *.

[OutInTheBack40]

10. Mixed messages

Why is it the only signers of the draft bill are Democrats? I hate to point out the obvious but that makes the whole draft issue smell like "Dems want a draft".

[mopaul]

11. a draft would bring this country DOWN

we flat out ain't gonna take it. we will rock and we will roll.