Politics

First They Came For The Nurses

First the Back-Door Draft,
Now the Foot-in-the-Door Draft
So the cat's out of the bag. With reports today in the New York Times, AP and other media outlets that the Pentagon is contemplating a draft call-up of health professionals because of a shortage of doctors, nurses and medics in the increasingly thinly stretched U.S. military, we can see the lie in Bush's (and in Kerry's) promises not to reinstate conscription. Posted by Editor at October 25, 2004 07:17 AM