1. Rummy says today that no one in the administration is even theorizing or discussing or pondering a draft of any kind:
"Let me be even more emphatic on that point. To my knowledge, in the time I have served as secretary of defense, the idea of reinstating draft has never been debated, endorsed, discussed, theorized, pondered or even whispered by anyone in the Bush administration." - Donald Rumsfeld op ed, Deseret News, 10/28/042. But just a week ago in the New York Times we read that the Selective Service just paid a big DC consulting firm to come up with a new plan to implement a draft of medical workers, and figure out how they'd to do it and not piss off the public. That's pondering or theorizing at the very least. This guy is such a fucking liar.
The Selective Service System has been updating its contingency plans for a draft of doctors, nurses, and other health-care workers in case of a national emergency that overwhelmed the military's medical corps.
In a confidential report this summer, a contractor hired by the agency described how such a draft might work, how to secure compliance, and how to mold public opinion and communicate with health-care professionals, whose lives could be disrupted.
On the one hand, the report said, the Selective Service should establish contacts in advance with medical societies, hospitals, schools of medicine and nursing, managed-care organizations, rural health-care providers, and the editors of medical journals and trade publications.
On the other hand, it said, such contacts must be limited, low-key and discreet because "overtures from Selective Service to the medical community will be seen as precursors to a draft," and that could alarm the public....
Richard S. Flahavan, a spokesman for the Selective Service System, said yesterday: "We have been routinely updating the entire plan for a health-care draft."
