McAuliffe to College Dems: Bush Will Reinstitute Draft [trying not to be controversial]

CNS News ^ | Oct 8, 2004 | Robert B. Bluey

[Mike Fieschko]

St. Louis (CNSNews.com) - Republicans had no sooner shot down rumors of a military draft when Democratic Party Chairman Terry McAuliffe warned a group of College Democrats on Friday that President Bush would call them up for duty if re-elected.

"I know it's controversial to say it, but don't think for one second that if George Bush gets re-elected and we have another conflict in some other theater of the world, we're going to have to reinstitute the draft," McAuliffe said. "It is very controversial to say it, but it is what it is."

McAuliffe spoke to about a hundred of Washington University's College Democrats at a coffee house near the campus Friday afternoon. Afterward, he told CNSNews.com he stood by his comments to the students.

"It's clearly a possibility," McAuliffe said. "What if we have another conflict where we have to commit troops? We don't have them today."

He added: "I'm not trying to do this to scare young people, but they've got to understand this is a possibility in this country."

Rumors have circulated on the Internet about the possible return of a draft. E-mails have targeted college students in particular.

A spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign immediately dismissed McAuliffe's comments as a tactic to scare young voters.

"It's completely baseless," said Taylor Griffin, deputy communications director for the Bush campaign. "This administration believes in a volunteer military. The only people who've proposed a draft are Democrats in Congress."

In fact, the House of Representatives this week voted down a Democrat-sponsored bill that would have reinstated the draft. Republicans brought up the measure, sponsored by Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), only to shoot it down in a 402-2 vote.

Following McAuliffe's speech, even some of the Democrats in attendance said they thought the party chairman was bluffing when he made his pitch.

"I had a little problem with that," said Steve Chemtob, a junior in earth and planetary science. "There's a little bit of contradiction there. [McAuliffe] talked about how Bush was going to reinstitute the draft, but also how [Kerry] was complaining there weren't enough troops in Iraq."

"I don't think [Bush] would institute the draft," added Spencer Wein, a sophomore business major. "But I think there's less of a chance Kerry would institute it."

Others at McAuliffe's speech weren't so sure it was completely outside the realm of possibility.

"It's something that could legitimately take place, and I think the Democrats have considered the idea, and I think the Republican have, too," said Matt Klasen, a junior political science and environmental studies major. "I think it's being turned against the Republicans simply because they're in power."

Junior Nicole Soussan, president of the Washington University College Democrats, defended McAuliffe after the speech. She agreed that a draft under Bush might be very likely.

"If [Bush] continues on this pattern of unjustified preemptive warfare, then by all means, there really is no physical way that we have enough troops to continue on the present path," Soussan said. "I think it's scary."

[spinestein]

"I think it's scary."


I know how you feel.

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.

john kerry would have to bring back the draft to make up for the huge numbers of troopers who would leave the service if he were elected.

Liberal field grade officers would be promoted and the armed services would take years to recover. Look at the damage Shinseki and Karpinski did, Crowe, Zinni and Kennedy. above the pay grade O-5 officers are promoted for political reasons, not for merit.

Generals, Admirals and Supreme Court Justices all point why john kerry cannot be president

Michael Frazier

[theoldChief]

"I know it's controversial to say it, but don't think for one second that if George Bush gets re-elected and we have another conflict in some other theater of the world, we're going to have to reinstitute the draft," McAuliffe said. "It is very controversial to say it, but it is what it is."

"It's clearly a possibility," McAuliffe said. "What if we have another conflict where we have to commit troops? We don't have them today."

He added: "I'm not trying to do this to scare young people, but they've got to understand this is a possibility in this country."

And this is just one day after JFake accuses the President of trying to "scare" the people.

WTFO?

[GOP_Raider]

I'm not trying to do this to scare young people

Whatever you say, punk....

[maine-iac7]

He added: "I'm not trying to do this to scare young people, but they've got to understand this is a possibility in this country." McAwful re draft and Bush

....

Bush should point out again - LOUD AND CLEAR - that this is NOT his policy. Indeed, with Bush as our military's proud Pres. - no need. They are enlisting and re-upping in far greater numbers that under Clinton, who they hated - and were bailing out in record numbers.
BUT
bush should say, "Obviously, the democrat's think the draft would probably be necc. That indicates they would probably do it. We believe that an all voluntary - read "wanna be here" military performs much better than someone who has been given no choice. But evidently, the democrats lean towards a draft - well, just look at the reality. Two bills sponsoring the draft. Both bills written by Democrats and all the sponsors who signed onto the bills are - you guessed it - democrats. I think the American people are smart enough to know when they're getting snookered."

[Gimme]

"Horse hockey! Charlie Rangel (a DEMOCRAT) brought up the bill, and it FAILED in the House 402-2. Even Rangel voted against it. Only two DEMOCRATS voted for it!
Shut up, McAuliffe, you LOW LIFE SCUM LOSER !!"

EXACTLY, this whole scam was created by the Democrats.
Rangel, Hollings and 12 other Democrats sponsored the damn thing and only 2 of them voted for what they had co sponsored. It was obnoxious. Don't you love how your tax dollars are being spent?

[Lizavetta]

The mandatory service part leads me to believe that it is unpaid service. Young slaves for Kerry!

Right!

But don't forget, it's BUSH who's the fascistic dictator warmongering cowboy.

[Just mythoughts]

There is a reason for this "draft" madness.

"IF" JFKerry wins this election he most likely will need to call for re-instituting the draft. Thus planting the seeds today about it being a "Bush" action is to be harvested during a JFKerry administration.

I doubt that those who serve today will want to serve under a JFKerry administration, and even fewer will voluntarily sign up.

[MeekOneGOP]

Don't you love how your tax dollars are being spent?

Oh, yeah.

[Enlightiator]

This presidential election has shown how low the Democrats will go. Complete immorality, totally corrupt, nothing but outright lies. Terry McAuliffe is a perfect example of the moral degeneration of the Democratic leadership. No wonder they have to up the vote with the dead and illegal voters - reasonable people are leaving the party in droves and becoming Republicans.

[L.N. Smithee]

This says to me that McAuliffe was really, really, relying on this issue catching fire, and even after the Republicans have buried the issue six feet deep, he can't afford to back off.

McAuliffe's shot his wad. He's got nothing left. He's running scared.

[New Perspective]

I wouldn't subject any part of myself to torture like that.

[Old Sarge]

It doesn't matter that the bill died on the House floor.

The Sheep have been told that GWB will draft them all.

The Sheep have heard, and The Sheep will believe. That's what Sheep do.

[joesmoe25]

Let's start our own email chain with the TRUTH. Please forward the following email to everyone you know:

Subject: MANDITORY Service for Young Americans

An email chain was recently started to scare young Americans into believing that Bush and the Republicans were planning to bring back the draft. That email even pointed to specific legislation in the works (S 89 and HR 163). The legislation does actually exist and it does call for 2 years of MANDITORY service for all people between the ages of 18 and 26. You can read about it here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:H.R.163:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:SN00089:

The only problem is that the legislation listed was actually introduced by DEMOCRATS (Charles Rangel and Ernest Hollings), not by the Republicans. The House Bill was cosponsored by 14 Democrats. Thankfully, Republicans in the House defeated the bill. In fact, the only people who actually voted for the bill were Democrats.

Democrats are now claiming those bills were just political statements and were not really serious attempts at reinstating a draft; however, John Kerry himself posted a plan on his website that also called for MANDITORY SERVICE for young Americans. Probably fearing political fallout from younger voters, that plan has been removed from John Kerry’s website. However, you can still see it listed on sites that archive older versions of other websites:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040210043828/www.johnkerry.com/issues/natservice/

President Bush and the Republicans have consistently said that they would not reinstate the draft. The only people who have proposed and supported mandatory service programs are John Kerry and the Democrats. If elected, Kerry and the Democrats are free to revive those old plans and try to enslave America’s youth in mandatory service programs. It’s time for America to know the truth about John Kerry and the Democrats.

[shhrubbery!]

don't think for one second that if George Bush gets re-elected and we have another conflict in some other theater of the world, we're going to have to reinstitute the draft," McAuliffe said

Ummmmmm, Terry. I think you just said the opposite of what you meant.

But not to worry. We all know that everything you say is horsesh*t, no matter how you slice it.

[SERKIT]

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[RichInOC]

Hi. I'd like to thank God once again right this minute for making Terry McAuliffe Democratic chair. Not only has he been good for the Republicans, he's been entertaining to boot.