You read that subject line right: Congress isquietly trying to pass two bills that wouldre-instate the draft. Thelink is here.

Quotes taken from the link:

“The Pentagon has quietly begun a public campaignto fill all 10,350 draft board positions and11,070 appeals board slots nationwide.. Thoughthis is an unpopular election year topic, militaryexperts and influential members of congress aresuggesting that if Rumsfeld’s prediction of a”long, hard slog” in Iraq and Afghanistan [and apermanent state of war on "terrorism"] provesaccurate, the U.S. may have no choice but todraft.”

“Dodging the draft will be more difficult thanthose from the Vietnam era.

College and Canada will not be options. InDecember 2001, Canada and the U.S. signed a “smartborder declaration,” which could be used to keepwould-be draft dodgers in.”

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