[X180A]

I am so surprised that nobody is talking about Kerry's self-contradiction, flip-flop, that he makes approximately one hour into the debate. Kerry contantly criticized Bush for calling up so many National Guard and Reserves and he warns Bush will bring back a draft to meet personnel shortages. Then ten minutes later Kerry says he plans to create two more divisions and double the Special Forces. What he is refering to is one of many options that was considered by the Congressional Budget Office last November. The result is not only an 80,000 man increase in active forces, but it also requires a 10,000-11,000 increase in reserve forces. It would cost $3-4 billion annually and it has tremendous one time costs for training and equipment. After all, 90,000 pair of boots are expensive.

The current administration chose its course of action from many that were considered. The one Kerry alluded to was considered but not chosen for obvious reasons.

Come on guys! Kerry can't decrease the number of soldiers called to duty and increase the military by 2 divisions at the same time. Kerry can't cut the cost of military expendatures in Iraq and increase military spending by over $3 billion at the same time. Kerry can't claim that Bush has a secret plan to institute a draft because the army can't get enough volunteers and then tell us Kerry as president will increase military manning by 90,000 more people - from where? And Kerry can't criticize Bush for calling up so many reserves when he wants to add two new divisions that would require an additional 10,000 reserves.

Hey, you guys on Bush's team. How did you let that slip by?

[pipecorp]

This is what he truly meant by a back door draft. ( or it could be the cool breeze you feel when he gets done with you.)

[Veto!]

bttt

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Everyone is going after the real biggie, the Global Approval:

Thread here:

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[DaveMSmith]

I wrote cBS evening News and asked them to investigate ;=) Give our old pal Dan a little project...

evening@cbsnews.com

[blanknoone]

Not to get totally off topic, but I don't think this qualifies as his BIGGEST flip flop. I think the biggest flip flop is his constant demand that 'allies' do more, but when our Afghan allies played a major role, he denigrated them, referred to it as 'outsourcing' and said it was a mistake because they are not as capable as American troops. Newsflash to Kerry: no military on the planet is as capable as ours....if being as capable as Americans is the qualification, everything we do will be unilateral. And when I say unilateral, I don't mean with 30 allies, I mean it in the true sense of the word...alone.

[Read2Know]

"Kerry can't decrease the number of soldiers called to duty and increase the military by 2 divisions at the same time"

If Kerry gets elected, I predict a fall in numbers of enlistees. Think about it, would you want to serve for a guy who stabbed his shipmates in the back, betrayed all his fellow soldiers in Viet Nam and disgraced the uniform by meeting with the enemy in Paris?

[BluH2o]

What I find most disconcerting (and I have posted several related comments since the debate last night) is that Bush, in addition to being inarticulate in his responses, let so many opportunities to slam dunk Kerry slip by. Dubya was asleep at the switch last night.

[TMSuchman]

There was another one gaff.
When they were speaking of the miltary budgets katsup-boy let slip something about cutting budgets. Did anybody get this?

[SunkenCiv]

It will appear in the attack ads. I saw one here in Michigan today, but couldn't hear the specifics because I was talking with my mom at her house. I could tell that some of the Kerry images were from the debate.

A lot of people around here seem to be peeing their pants about the debate results. The "results" were engineered before the fact. The partisan media shills are just doing what they always do. They don't control what GWB's campaign says in ads.