Seattle PI
Saturday, May 1, 2004
Selective Service eyes women's draft
The proposal would also require registration of critical skills
By ERIC ROSENBERG
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON -- The chief of the Selective Service System has proposed registering women for the military draft and requiring that young Americans regularly inform the government about whether they have training in niche specialties needed in the armed services.
The proposal, which the agency's acting Director Lewis Brodsky presented to senior Pentagon officials just before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, also seeks to extend the age of draft registration to 34 years old, up from 25.
The Selective Service System plan, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, highlights the extent to which agency officials have planned for an expanded military draft in case the administration and Congress would authorize one in the future.
Put this together with my previous post about Selective Service mining the Department of Education databases and you have college-aged women included in Bush's little middle east escapade.
Does this mean my wife, an Ivy college student and federal aid recipient might be drafted, forced to leave our two kids and go off to Iraq?
Over my dead body.
Bring it on.