Too bad Kerry doesn't go into detail about his policies.
a draft would weaken our military....a kerry goal is to finish
what jimmah carter and the klintoons started.
Why is Ron Silver the only one saying this?
I think that thousands of US soldiers will decide that they do not want to serve under Kerry and will opt out of the service at the earliest possible opportunity.
Who will he replace these soldiers with - certainly it won't be liberal volunteers!!
Isn't it Ron Silva?
I can see it now: "During the campaign my opponent came up with the idea of reinstituing the draft..."
not to mention all the soldiers, sailors, and marines that won't re-up because they can't stand the thought of serving under a traitor for CIC.
Good for Ron. After dirty trickster Charlie Rangel put forward a bill to re-instate the draft it became clear that it was only dems. that were disengenuously trying to muddy the water and imply that this was a bush supported idea. Even after bush clearly stated in the debates that the draft was not necessary, Kerry kept insisting that this was bush's idea, presumably in an effort to fool the MTV generation. Fortunatly, no one was fooled, but it's good that Silver made sure the message got out.
Hi Ho Silver!!
i really dont remember when but didnt a few months ago kerry propose something about a mandatory service for all men 18 and older? maybe im crazy but i swore he announced that somewhere.
That would leave no choice but to draft UNWILLING, UNSKILLED, UNTRAINED, UNEDUCATED men and women into the forces.
Due to the vast array of technical equipment in use today, training of a military person takes a longer time, and depends on the skills a person has.
This would mean a WEAK, poorly trained, and UNWILLING military force, that would quickly become THIRD RATE.
Soon aftr, the US would become a THIRD RATE POWER in the world, forced to KOWTOW to the UN, which is just what KERRY HAS BEEN PLANNING ALL ALONG.
The very point I've made more than once.
Yep, when you have all the volunteers who want to go into the military already in the military, and you announce that you ARE going to increase the military, how is that going to happen?
Draft.
Dan
There's one other possibility for Kerry to reach that 40K number --- it's called Stop-Loss. The basically tell all troops that they are in for the duration of the 'crisis'. And this is exactly what they have been howling about in the limited cases where the Bush Administration has used this power. Kerry would just broaden the use of Stop-Loss.
Karry did his duty in Vietnam
Mc.Cain fell down in a parashuot in a lake in Hanoi
Alexander Haig was General in Vietnam.
If just one of these brave men where selectet as president
That would bee a victory.