I received this from someone that I know and 1st thought that it was one of those joke things gets sent around from time to time. So I went to the House of Representitives site and looked it up and sure enough there it was. The U.S. has a bill on the floor to start the draft back up. Thought I would share this.

Subject: Fwd: DRAFT EXPECTED JULY 15, 2005


> Sent to me, passing along/////
>
...........................................................................
.....dj
>
> I rarely send a mail to a large audience, but the possibility of
> mandatory
>
> drafting for boys and girls (age 18-26) starting June 15, 2005, is
>
> something, I believe, everyone should know. This literally affects
> EVERYONE
>
> since we all have or know children that will have to go if this bill
> passes.
>
>
>
> If there are children in your family, READ this. 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. Details and
> links
>
> follow.
>
>
>
> Even those voters who currently support us.. Actions abroad may still
> object
>
> to this move, knowing their own children or grandchildren will not have
> a
>
> say about whether to fight. Not that it should make a difference, but
> this
>
> plan, among other things, eliminates higher education as a shelter and
>
> includes women in the draft
>
>
>
> Also, crossing into Canada has already been made very difficult.
> Actions,
>
> actions, actions: Please send this on to all the parents and teachers
> you
>
> know, and all the aunts and uncles, grandparents, godparents.... And
> let
>
> your children know -- it's their future, and they can be a powerful
> voice
>
> for change!
>
>
>
> Please also contact your representatives to ask them why they aren't
> telling
>
> their constituents about these bills -- and contact newspapers and
> other
>
> media outlets to ask them why they're not covering this important
> story.
>
>
>
> 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. 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.
>
>
>
> 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 [and a permanent state of war on
> "terrorism"]
>
> proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.
>
>
>
> http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html
> <http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html>
>
>
>
> Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year,
>
> http://www.hslda.org/legislation/na...s89/default.asp
> <http://www.hslda.org/legislation/na...s89/default.asp>
>
> <http://www.hslda.org/legislation/na...s89/default..asp
> <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." These active bills
> currently sit
>
> in the committee on armed services.
>
>
>
> Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those from the Vietnam
> era.
>
> College and Canada will not be options. In December 2001, Canada and
> the
>
> U.S. signed a "smart border declaration," which could be used to keep
>
> would-be draft dodgers in. Signed by Canada's minister of foreign
> affairs,
>
> John Manley, and U.S. Homeland Security director, Tom Ridge, the
> declaration
>
> involves a 30-point plan which implements, among other things, a
>
> "pre-clearance agreement" of people entering and departing each
> country.
>
> Reforms aimed at making the draft more equitable along gender and
> class
>
> lines also eliminates higher education as a shelter. Underclassmen
> would
>
> only be able to postpone service until the end of their current
> semester.
>
> Seniors would have until the end of the academic year.
>
>
>
> WHAT TO DO:
>
>
>
> - Tell all your friends
>
>
>
> - Call the Mercury News (Newsdesk) 408-920-5000
>
>
>
> -E-mail the SF Chronicle at: Tbyrne@sfchronicle.com
>
>
>
> - Contact your Senators and tell them to oppose these bills. Barbara
> Boxer:
>
> 415-403-0100 Diane Feinstein: 415/393-0707 Anna Eshoo: 202/225-8104
> Nancy
>
> Pelosi: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov
>
>
>
>
>
> Gail Anderson
>
> SECAP Coordinator
>
> Georgia Regional Transportation Authority
>
> 245 Peachtree Center Ave., Suite 900
>
> Atlanta, Georgia 30303
>
> www.ga-secap.com
>
> 404-463-6440
>
> 404-463-3060 Fax

I am just thankful that I and my live-in BF are too old for this. I don't want to go to Iraq to fight Georgie Jr's personal war.

Here's something more to read about the subject:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/draft.asp

Thanks Pia.

If it happens, I guess I'll just move to Canada.

I'll be canadas army of one.

If its from the internet its GOTTA be true

oh my god im only 22? Im going to war against Osama Bin Laden

There are plenty of people, in the last couple of years, signing up, so we shouldn't have to worry about anyone being forced into a two week boot camp before being shipped off to Iraq. Besides, there would be so much backlash, if that happened, that if a bill is really being written in Congress, it wouldn't pass.

Maybe they should pass the Draft. Since they are a lot of people complait so much about the War. A lot of Soildiers are dying in Iraq.

But Compare how many people died in World War 1, WW2?

I guess The United States have to save the entire world again. It is Called The War of Terrorist.

Obl and follower would never stop until they want to kill all usa people.

I guess We have to keep fighting until we ended the war of Terrorist?

Cold War Ended over 40 yrs?

Oh boy...

here we go again.

Whew, I was reading the ages, how terrible for peoples children and others that age...Thank goodness my husband just turned 27, just made it out of that age group, besides I don't think the US wants him with his slipped herniated disks and high blood pressure, he would fail the physical for sure.

God bless all those that may have to go though and those already there (including my 2 cousins and step sister)