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[ord33]

Kerry is STILL spreading this BS. Got this from Drudge. It is amazing to me that Kerry is the one throwing these allegations out there. He is the one who says he is going to increase the military by 40,000 and double the size of special forces. This is incredible.

[jwb7605]

I can't let this comment go unattended.
75-80% of active military and their families do NOT support John Kerry.
That means our current level of enlistment and re-enlistment will likely drop significantly if John Kerry is elected.
That, if the 'war on terror' intensifies anywhere else, will require more, not fewer, troops.

If more troops are needed (for any reason: good or bad), and fewer people are enlisting because they are not supporting the government or administration or policies, then the draft becomes more likely.

Statistically, it is much more likely that John Kerry would need to implement a draft. NOT George Bush. It is also more likely that the effort would succeed ... current pathetic attempts at this legislation would stand a better chance if a Democrat were president, since the submitted legislation has come from Democrats.

By the way: this logic works beautifully when presented to a 20-something from a 56-year old who did the same thing both Bush and Kerry did: join another branch to avoid getting drafted.

[ranch hand]

Suppose Kerry will pardon all the deserters and AWOLs if elected. Carter did.

Kerry will need a draft.

Remember right after Clinton was elected but before being sworn in, he held an economic summit. Out of the blue came information that the country needed an immediate tax increase to offset deficits.

Kerry could very well do the same thing. Have a summit (he likes those) and find out that enlistments have fallen off. Only solution is a draft.

[LewWaters]

If there would be a draft, it would come in a Kerry Administration, not Bush's. Kerry is the one announcing how he will add 40,000 troops and double Special Forces and all. Add to that the number of Active Duty military that would leave the services if he won. So, just where does he think he'd get all these additional people to fill the military?

Like his economic plan, his numbers and claims just don't add up.
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[ord33]

Seems to me, the Democratic tactic these days is to charge the Bush Campaign of what they are really trying to do/are.

Saying Bush's plan will need a draft, when Kerry's is more likely to require a draft.

Accusing Republicans of election fraud when they are in fact the one's doing so.

Complaining about Bush's military service while Kerry is the one who may not have received an honorable discharge.

Consistenly saying George Bush doesnt tell the truth, and they will.

Feel free to add others, because I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.

[fr11]

It's not just Kerry. MTV/Rock The Vote are still spreading this message as well. The Dems keep seeking lower and lower. Nothing they do surprises me anymore. I just wish Bush would call them on it and say, "Mr. sKerry, let's look at whose plan would REALLY require a draft. I've talked about pulling OUT troops as early as January. Your plan is to ADD 40,000 troops. The only way we'd have a draft is under a sKerry presidency!"

Bush has too much class to do this, but someone really needs to point this out to the American public.

You know how some people get their dog's vocal chords clipped? I think we should do that to sKerry!

[poseidon]

[I B Squidly]

Ditto all these observations.

What's really frightening is the prospect of having to draft Special Forces and the Patsy Schroeder mindset behind it.

Let them all wear berets.

[Steve Z]

President Bush, from transcript from second debate, on national TV:

"We're not going to have a draft, period. The all- volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well. It works when we make sure they've got housing, like we have done in the last military budgets."

Now what about the statement "We're not going to have a draft" does Kerry not understand?

Unless he means that there will be a draft if HE is elected...

Come to think of it, Kerry is always bringing up General Shinseki, who thought that the US needed "several" hundred thousand troops in Iraq, when the 150,000 that were sent took three weeks fight their way from Kuwait to Baghdad.

Kerry always seems to want to send massive armies, but refuses to fund effective weapons, whereas Bush sends fewer men but very well-armed and well-trained. It's KERRY who wants lots of men drafted, while Bush wants to win the war as efficiently as possible, with fewer casualties.
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The traitor will crater!

[neverforget]

Republicans need to make and repeat over and over two points:

1. Kerry wants to increase the number of our forces;

2. Democrats in Congress were the only ones proposing bills to re-enact the draft.
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[BrianC]

[Darkhorse18]

Just think how scared Kerry has gotten the male daft age voters are!

[KWJams]

[Stevie]

I read on the Kerry site blog that their people 'registering voters' at colleges where using the 'do you wanna get drafted' line to scare them into registering to vote - for kerry of course.

Bush and his people (franks is out there) need to HAMMER this one ! and fast.... and reverse it to Kerry - there is no way he will add 40,000 troops without one.... he'll lose so many we have now if he is elected !
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Stevie
Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage
morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should
be arrested, exiled or hanged.

[Stevie]