Everyone can rest easy now about the draft.....

[No2W2004]

Rumsfeld Sees No Need for Military Draft

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration sees no need to reinstate the military draft, but it is pushing for improved Pentagon (news - web sites) management of the 1.4 million-strong force in order to meet wartime needs, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday

"I don't know anyone in the executive branch of the government who believes it would be appropriate or necessary to reinstitute the draft," Rumsfeld told the Newspaper Association of America's annual convention

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=7&u=/ap/rumsfeld_draft

Gee, if the Sec. of Defense says it, it MUST be true!:eyes::crazy:

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. When the government denies it...

...it is true.

Lesson from the Watergate era.

[PaDUer]

8. Right on n/t

[nankerphelge]

2. He has to say that...

after he trashed all the prior draftees.

http://www.seacoastonline.com/2003news/01262003/opinion/9732.htm

[judy]

3. Yep, kind of like

"I have no plans for war against Iraq on my desk"

What a bunch of creeps!

[rfranklin]

5. No, the plans were on Cheney's desk...

because Junior couldn't be bothered to read 'em.

[thinkingwoman]

4. interviewed a recruiter today

who began by telling us what topics he was not allowed to discuss. One of them was (and I quote here)....

"I can't talk about the draft."

Not the POSSIBILITY of the draft. Not the RUMOR of the draft. He said he could not talk about the draft.

Draw your own conclusions. I've certainly drawn mine.

[MidwestMomma]

6. Oh crap...in Rummy speak, that means the draft is a sure thing

This admin makes me feel like Alice falling thru the looking glass. When will the madness end?

[John_H]

7. Now's the time to START worrying

When someone from the Chimp administration says one thing, the opposite is about to happen.