Trying the draft issue...again

Geez, these people just never give up, do they? Now Newsweek is trying to push this phony draft issue that the democrats are using to try to scare the young, stupid and stoned, not to mention their parents. MSNBC gave it some cyberink recently, leaving out some important facts, like whose idea it was in the first place. Then there's that hoaxed spam that's hitting e-mail boxes all over college campuses. Well now, here's Jonathan Alter to try to make a bunch of kids and their moms soil themselves over something that just isn't going to happen:

While Bush has no plans to reinstate a draft, he could be forced into it by events. Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, a likely presidential candidate in 2008, says that a draft "might become necessary" in the years ahead. The threshold question before the election is this: which candidate is more likely to have so few international friends amid a crisis that he would have to move beyond the all-volunteer force? This question takes the seemingly arcane issue of burden-sharing and brings it home to the American heartland. If we need, God forbid, to occupy another country that truly threatens the United States, we will either do it with the help of our allies or with the conscription of our kids.

Lots of coulds, ifs, mights, maybes and hypothetical questions about worse case situations in the article...which seem to be part of the gloom and doom that the democrats push daily.

Once again...

...let me repeat it again:

Bill Summary & Status for the 108th Congress S.89. Hollings (D-SC) sponsored it. It has no other sponsors. The Republicans have kept it bottled up in committee for nearly two years.

Bill Summary & Status for the 108th Congress H.R.163. Sponsored by Rangel (D-NY). All the co-sponsors are Democrats. Not one Republican. It's been held up since March 2003.

Not. Gonna. Happen.