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Defense Department Deletes Notice About Draft Boards
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>>> On 23 Sept 2003, the Defense Department Website called "Defend America" posted a notice for people to join local draft boards. "If a military draft becomes necessary," the notice explained, "approximately 2,000 Local and Appeal Boards throughout America would decide which young men, who submit a claim, receive deferments, postponements or exemptions from military service, based on Federal guidelines."

In early November, that notice started to receive media attention, with articles from the Associated Press, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , the Oregonian, the Toronto Star, the BBC, and London Guardian (unsurprisingly, none of the major papers or networks in the US covered it).

In a familiar turn of events, the notice suddenly disappeared from the Website.

******Gotta protect that fragile American psyche from the ravages of the reality of a policy of Imperialism. Don't want them to realize that in order to continue providing young men and women for the Iraqi Proconsul to turn into "heroes" (whom Bush wants to keep their final return to the Homeland kept out of the news), they are going to have to resort to conscription (oooh, another bad word), especially after some enterprising journalist took a survey of the troops currently in the TOO and determined that about 50% of the troops would not re-enlist. But that's just this old curmudgeon's opinion******

posted by An Old Curmudgeon 6:28 PM