Posted on 10/15/2004 11:17:03 AM PDT by Brilliant
There is a "great potential of a draft" to replenish U.S. forces in Iraq if President Bush wins a second term, Democratic challenger John Kerry said on a campaign stop in Iowa.
Bush said in the second presidential debate that there would be no revival of the military draft under any circumstances if he is re-elected. "We're not going to have a draft, period," the president said.
However, Kerry told The Des Moines Register, "With George Bush, the plan for Iraq is more of the same and the great potential of a draft." The interview was published Friday as Kerry was leaving for Wisconsin and a speech on the economy.
Kerry is telling voters that Bush's record on jobs and taxes has helped special interests, not their interests, as he heads into the final stretch of his presidential campaign with running mate John Edwards.
He prepared to deliver the first in a series of speeches that aides describe as the campaign's "closing arguments" in Milwaukee, the first stop of a daylong drive through Wisconsin. A record 2004 federal deficit of $413 billion reported Thursday fueled the Democrats.
"We know that the strength of our economy isn't just about how many jobs we've gained or lost," Kerry said in remarks prepared for delivery Friday. "It's also about whether those jobs lift up our families. It's about whether our incomes are rising or falling."
Kerry portrayed the president as out of touch with the everyday challenges facing families.
"George Bush has had four years to do something — anything — to create an economy where hard working Americans can live out their dreams," Kerry said. "The problem is, this president just doesn't understand what's happened to our economy."
Bush was also campaigning in the Midwest on Friday, heading to Iowa and Wisconsin after more than a weeklong swing that included stops in Missouri and Arizona for the last two debates.
Bush has defended his economic record, saying that repeated tax cuts energized growth and helped create 1.78 million new jobs after the economy sustained terrorist attacks, a sustained stock market slide and a recession.
Wisconsin's unemployment rate runs below the national average, and the state's voters haven't seen the severe job losses afflicting other Midwestern battlegrounds. Bush has a slight lead in the state, which Democrat Al Gore won narrowly four years ago.
Some of the thousands who turned out to hear Kerry and Edwards brought brooms to signify Kerry's "sweep" of the debates. The crowd was dotted with "3-4-3" signs declaring Kerry the victor of all three face-to-face battles with Bush.
In Oregon on Thursday, Bush campaigned in Jacksonville, a historic gold-mining boomtown in the southern part of the state. Kerry appears to be making in roads in the area, a growing region near the California state line that has been a traditional Republican stronghold.
Bush lost Oregon in 2000 by less than 7,000 votes, though he handily defeated Democrat Al Gore in the county containing Jacksonville, a town created when gold was discovered here in 1851. The gold rush is long over but Jacksonville preserved its heritage and the entire town, population 2,300, is designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Interior Department.
The area has turned from a declining timber industry to tourism and retirement for its strong economy.
Bush's father paid a visit as vice president to Jacksonville, and his son repeated the compliment, staying overnight in a 141-year-old inn whose last presidential guest was Rutherford B. Hayes.
"I understand Rutherford complained about the tab; I'm not going to," Bush told thousands of cheering supporters at the Jackson County fairgrounds in nearby Central Point.
While waiting for the president to return to Jacksonville, anti-Bush protesters were dispersed by police in riot gear who fired pepperballs at them, projectiles like a paintball filled with cayenne pepper. Police took the action while moving the crowd away from the Jacksonville Inn where the president was to arrive for dinner.
But a draft or huge enlistment will be needed if we intend to occupy and control their countries.
Today's Democratic Party is scum. Zell Miller was right.
Especially because John Kerry would not be a commander-in-chief who would be capable of inspiring young people to enlist.
Kerry will say anything.
I hope this is getting through to everyone.
How many people could be left to convince?
At this point, Kerry is supressing the vote for Kerry.
You're right about that. And many in the military would probably retire if Sen. Kerry became CIC. So, under a Kerry Presidency, the draft might, indeed, need to be brought back.
Kerry will say anything. I hope this is getting through to everyone. How many people could be left to convince?
Of course Kerry and the DNC will say anything. Todays Democratic Party is corrupt. Zell Miller was right.
Unfortunately, there are too many sheeple who believe the draft rumor and any other baldfaced lie the DNC chooses to tell:
An excerpt from Kerry and the sheep:
"After watching the presidential campaign coverage for the last several months and the final debate last night, I have come to one conclusion: The American electorate is so full of sheep, that they’ll believe anything the liberal Democrats and the media feed them.
These sheep don’t look at campaign issues, they don’t separate the truth from the lies, and they ignore the flip-flops...
Finally, remember that sheep can no longer be considered cuddly – they’re dangerous to the future of the free world..."
My mother has been a life-long Democrat and agrees with Zell Miller. She thinks Kerry is a joke and will be voting for President Bush.
How great!
Actually, they brought the brooms so that Terry Kerry and Loudmouth Lizzie could head to their next stop expediently...
Some brought brooms. I bet that was unplanned.
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