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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (613308)	8/29/2004 4:53:36 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush Takes Both Popular and Electoral Leads rasmussenreports.com (and the Convention hasn't even started...)

To: bentway who wrote (613308)	8/29/2004 5:00:50 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

That is the Selective Servive system. The act of "draft" was previously called simply conscription. At various times you could actually pay someone else to fulfill your obligation

To: bentway who wrote (613308)	8/29/2004 5:43:25 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You are abysmally ignorant of U.S. history. Any high school student would know of the New York draft riots during the Civil War. And they would know that Selective Service (the draft) was used in World War I. You came across an article saying the first peacetime draft was signed by FDR. Perhaps you are not an American citizen. If you are, you should not be allowed to vote. There should be a minimum standard of knowledge of your country's heritage and history before you are allowed to cast a ballot. Disgraceful!