This Just In—Kerry's IQ is Lower than Bush's!
During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army "because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to the perpetuation of war crimes."
In 1972, as he ran for the House, he was less apologetic in his comments about the merits of a volunteer army. He declared in the questionnaire that he opposed the draft but considered a volunteer army "a greater anathema."
"I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown," Kerry wrote. "We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply 'doing its job.'