You have to love Democracy Now. Amy Goodman reported this morning on a story that I’ve read about nowhere else. Apparently, last week Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillispie recently sent a letter to Rock the Vote president Jehmu Greene offering his unsolicited legal advice. Apparently, Big Ed is worried that RtV could lose their non-profit status if they continue to talk about the possibility of a draft. While championing the RNC’s outreach efforts to younger voters through such hip and with-it methods as appearances of the WWE (whose Vince M. he thoughtfully cc’d on with the letter, presumably so that Vince knows what Ed’s got cookin’…), Ed notes (apparently without irony) that ‘this urban myth regarding the draft has been thoroughly debunked by no less than the President of the United States.’ He goes on, still evidently without sarcasm, that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have made clear that there will be no draft - given these guys batting average on foreign policy issues (WMD’s, Saddam and al-Quida, ‘mission accomplished,’ greeted as liberators, etc., etc., ad nauseum), one could understand the hesitancy that some show in taking their word for it.
Last time I checked (this morning, in fact), the Selective Service Act still requires that people register before they can buy a six-pack. Hearing the bumblefuck Bush foreign policy crowd insist that they will never institute a draft makes me damn happy that I’m getting pretty old to draft…
-Keith McCrea, Reviews Editor

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