(AP) House Quashes Draft Bill

[thecrow]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/05/politics/main647612.shtml

(AP) House Republicans sought to quash a persistent Internet rumor that the government will reinstate a military draft after the election, engineering an overwhelming vote Tuesday to kill legislation they hope will put the rumor to rest for good.

Republicans accused Democrats of feeding the rumor mill to scare young voters and their parents into voting against President Bush.

"This campaign is a baseless, malevolent concoction of the Democratic Party and everyone in this chamber knows it," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas.

The House voted 402-2 to defeat the draft bill offered last year by Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.

Even he urged Democrats to vote against the bill, and charged Republicans were cynically trying to use the measure to escape election-season questions about the war in Iraq.

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[aquart]

1. For now.

Which of the several draft bills floating around is it?

[loveable liberal]

2. oooooh!! Tom Delay said that???!!!!

It must be true!!! Well tom delay is a scumbag, corrupt, ass pickin, finger smelling, cow turd of a liar. and everone in "da house" knows that!!!

[Eye and Monkey]

3. So, what is like a draft, but can be done by Executive Order?

I don't know. Maybe some sort of new extra-legal fabrication like "enemy combatants" was. Perhaps that's what's being planned?

[Moderator]

4. DUplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=886984