Lots of discussion today about why Senator Kerry keeps bringing up the phony Draft issue. Does he really think that it will be needed, and he's doing his best to blame it on "Bush's policies that he inherited"? Is he just being a demagogue to rile up the sudent vote? Does he want to have a draft so as, in some perverted way, recrate the anti-military attitude of his youth? Hard to say.
One thing that occurs to me though, is that it may all be moot. Considering the harsh things he has had to say about the Iraqis, his obvious preference for the status quo ante, his dismissal of Iraqi sacrifices in the current struggle, and his threat to reinvolve the European monsters who fed off of Saddam's regime, there is some doubt that a Kerry-led America will be very welcome in Iraq. I can see the newly-elected Iraqi government asking Kerry to get the heck out next February or so, saying that they'd rather go it alone than with a hostile American administration mucking everything up.
There is a single reason for why Kerry continues to perpetuate the myth that if re-elected President Bush would re-instate th military draft: A demographic now favoring President Bush: Men 18-29; if re-instated the draft would target 18-26 year-old-men.
In other words, Kerry is using the favored commodity of the Democrats: Fear.
Hopefully that commodity is negated by another: Common sense.
Posted by: James C. Hes at October 16, 2004 06:20 AM