http://www.metafilter.com/tags/sss Posts tagged with 'sss' at MetaFilter. Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:20:19 -0800 Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:20:19 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/36648/Ready%2Dfor%2DWW4 <a href="http://blatanttruth.org/draft.php">Get Ready For WW4 : FOIA document details SSS preparations for a widespread draft to start with a callup of 36,000 doctors and nurses</a> : an in depth analysis with a detailed <a href="http://blatanttruth.org/draft.php#timeline">timeline</a> : <i>"...the SSS is in fact preparing for the real possibility of a Skills, Medical and Combat Draft for 2005. Congress of course must still pass a 1-page trigger resolution reauthorizing current conscription law, but the Selective Service will by early 2005 have geared up the entire draft system and be prepared to register more than 40 million Americans for a new Skills Draft and the Medical Draft....The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/19/politics/19draft.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=">NY Times on Oct. 19</a> published a long article on a subcontractor, Widemeyer Communications, that over the summer consulted the SSS on how a Medical Draft could be started up with minimal attention. The SSS said 36,000 doctors and nurses would be taken in the first batch of draftees. Why would Bush need so many? 36,000 is a huge number....Wesley Clark charges in his book Winning Modern Wars, that a senior Pentagon official told him in 2001 that there was a 5-year plan to topple 7 countries"</i> Here's the Seattle PI's take : <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/197438_pot30.html">"Administration's own actions fuel rumors of draft"</a> Here's a <a href="http://blatanttruth.org/selective_service091304.pdf ">Feb. 2003 document</a> (~500k pdf) obtained under the FOIA, on the SSS plans for a widespread draft. (more inside) tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.36648 Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:20:19 -0800 draft foia sss war ww4 troutfishing http://www.metafilter.com/31773/Do%2Dyou%2Dfeel%2Da%2Ddraft%2Din%2Dthe%2Dair <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/13/MNG905K1BC1.DTL">Do you have special skills?</a> If so, Uncle Sam may want to speak with you. <em>"The government is taking the first steps toward a targeted military draft of Americans with special skills in computers and foreign languages."</em> Nobody sees a need for a large scale draft like Vietnam, <em>"But they thought that if we have any kind of a draft, it will probably be a special skills draft."</em> The folks at SSS stress that this possibility is likely far off. It could take about two years to <em>"to have all the kinks worked out."</em> Is the draft in our future? tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.31773 Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:45:30 -0800 draft military selectiveservice sss madamjujujive