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Special Military Draft Alert
by Dems Will Win, September 14, 2004
Please distribute this content and the official SSS draft document, the Feb. 11, 2003 �Issue Paper,� to all college newspaper editors, in LTTEs [ letters to the editor] and mass e- mails. Not to be confused with draft legislation introduced by Congressman Charles Rangel in 2003 and it is not associated with any Democrat.
This PLAN is the work entirely of George W. Bush and his Republican comrades.
This is a SPECIAL MILITARY DRAFT ALERT. In May, the Seattle Post Intelligencer published an article about a document they received through the Freedom of Information Act. It was revealed that the SSS is currently �designing procedures� for the implementation of a �Skills Draft� and had held a top-level meeting on it with Deputy Undersecretaries at the Defense Department.
This draft would change the essential mission of the Selective Service and require �virtually every young American,� male and female ages 18�34, to register for the Skills Draft and list all the occupations they are proficient in to fill labor shortages throughout nearly the entire government. If enacted, the Skills Draft proposed in this FOI- recovered document would change America as we know it.
The Pentagon is suffering from immediate labor shortages. Recently, the inactive Ready Reserve had to be called up for the first time since the Gulf War to fill 5,600 job shortages in the Armed Forces. DoD said in the recent IRR callup �20% of the call-ups are truck drivers, 12% are supply specialists who can use a computer to track supplies, 10% are Humvee mechanics, 7% are administrative specialists and 6% are combat engineers� (USA Today, August 8, 2004).
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