On March 31st SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM reports to Bush....

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On March 31, the Selective Service System will report to President

Bush that it is ready to implement a draft within 75 days. We

have to organize now to stop the draft before it starts.

 

Despite what politicians say, there is a high probability that

the Bush Administration will attempt to reinstate the draft.

 

The U.S. military is in a quagmire in Iraq, facing a national

popular uprising against the occupation. Soldiers are dying

every day. A report issued in January 2004 by Jeffrey Record, a

visiting professor at the Air War College, said the Army is " near

the breaking point. " The Pentagon has been forced to issue repeated

" stop loss " orders and recall soldiers who had retired or otherwise

returned to civilian life.

 

Out of 10 Army Divisions, part or all of 9 of them are either

deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan. Twenty-one out of 33 regular

combat brigades are on active duty in Iraq, Afghanistan, South Korea,

or the Balkans. That's 63% of the Army's combat strength. This

means the Army is extremely overextended. The Bush Administration

has been trying to fill the gap with Reserve and National Guard

troops,but this is a temporary fix at best. The head of the Army

Reserves has recently written a memo saying that the readiness of his

forces has been drastically reduced through over-deployment and is

" degenerating into a broken force. "

 

Meanwhile, official U.S. foreign policy is now the doctrine of

" pre-emptive war " and " regime change " wherever a leader runs afoul

of U.S. corporate interests. An invasion of Iran, Syria, Korea, or

Cuba -- all of whom are on Washington and Wall Street's list of

targets -- would require tens or hundreds of thousands of new soldiers.

 

Enlistment rates not even able to maintain current force levels,

much less provide troops for new invasions and occupations. All four

services missed their enlistment quotas last year, and enlistments

in the Reserves, National Guard, and regular military are at a

30-year low. Many current members of the armed forces plan to get

out as soon as their current enlistment ends. According to a poll

conducted by the military newspaper Stars & Stripes, 49% of soldiers

stationed in Iraq do not plan to re-enlist.

 

The President has given the Selective Service System a set of

readiness goals to be implemented by March 31, 2005. As part of

these performance goals, the System must be ready to be fully

operational within 75 days. This means we can look for the

Draft to be in operation as early as June 15, 2005.

 

March 19 is the second anniversary of the war. On the weekend

of March 19-20, activists all over the globe will take to the

streets to demand and end to the war and occupation. No Draft No Way

will be mobilizing to take part in these demonstrations, which will

take place just a few days before the Selective Service System

reports to President Bush that it is ready to go. We must be in the

streets tolet them know that we oppose the draft and will not be used as

cannon fodder in Iraq or in any new war.

 

Let's Organize NOW to Stop the Draft:

 

1) Come to NYC for the March 19 Troops Out Now demonstration.

Join the No Draft No Way! contingent in the march.

http://www.troopsoutnow.org. Or join the march and rally in

Fayetteville, NC, outside Fort Bragg--for more information, see

 

http://www.ncpeacejustice.org.

 

2) Organize an anti-draft meeting at your school, church or

mosque, union hall, etc. Contact us at 212-633-6646 for help and

speakers.

 

3) Organize protests outside the selective service office in your area.

 

4) Donate to help build a network of educators, activists, and

resisters to fight the draft--before it returns.

http://nodraftnoway.org/donate-new.shtml

 

5) Sign the No Draft Petition.

http://nodraftnoway.org/petition.shtml

 

 

http://www.NoDraftNoWay.org

 

March 19

Troops Out Now!

March on Central Park in NYC!

Regional Demonstrations Across the U.S. & Worldwide

 

 

 

 

http://www.blueaction.org

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