Stop Loss

Also known as "Get yo' ass back in that uniform! You ain't going nowhere."

It's this bad: "The stop-loss expansion is indefinite, officials said."

Read the whole article here.

What's next, you might ask? Hmm, could it be that maybe it's a little drafty in here? Could be!

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.

$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.

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." These active bills currently sit in the committee on armed services.

But you can run to Canada, or be in school, right? WRONG!

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.

Of course, if this happens, nobody rich will actually get drafted. That would be un-American. Man, this whole Iraq deal sucks. All of it. The only people who are getting a good deal are already rich.

That's right. Dick Cheney, Halliburton, Exxon, Chevron, Raytheon, Martin Marietta, all of those bastards, who are already rich beyond the dreams of avarice, are gettin' PAID. Everybody else, EVERYBODY else, is a loser. American, Iraqi, soldier, citizen, everybody else in the whole damn world, it doesn't matter. We all lose.

There is one other group of people who are getting something, however.



Al Qaeda recruiters.