{"id":687,"date":"2004-04-21T12:14:01","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T17:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=687"},"modified":"2004-04-21T12:14:01","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T17:14:01","slug":"the-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"The Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to my mother last night and she told me that there is talk of Bush bringing the draft back if he is re-elected.  I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushdraft.com\/proof.html\">this website<\/a> which has various articles to back up the claims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\">The administration denies it<\/a> but I honestly don&#8217;t trust them as far as I could throw them, especially since there is legislation in Congress to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d108:SN00089:\">this bill<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.congress.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d108:HR00163:@@@L&#038;summ2=m&#038;\">this bill<\/a>.  Then keep track of the progress on the bill and write your reps if that is what you do in situations like this.  Granted, it&#8217;s still in committee and will not probably come up until January 2005, but I think it&#8217;s an issue we need to examine in this election year, especially as it pertains to the War (and it still *IS* a war) in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>And for those who say &#8220;but this is good and will encourage patriotism&#8221;, go talk to someone who was alive during the Vietnam War and had a friend, family member, or classmate sent over.  This will <strong><em><u>NOT<\/u><\/em><\/strong> be permitted to happen again, especially after the mistakes made in Vietnam and the effect it had on the lives of those who served there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to my mother last night and she told me that there is talk of Bush bringing the draft back if he is re-elected. I found this website which has various articles to back up the claims. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=687\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-b5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}