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Debate Score: Bush 3, Kerry 0 Written by Gregory Borse Saturday, October 16, 2004 Senator Kerry’s nuanced (read hypocritical) foreign policy record includes politically opportunistic votes on the idea of war (he’s for it when it’s politically expedient, or supported by Clinton, and against it when Howard Dean proves that it’s politically expedient in the Democratic Party to be against it). But Kerry has also voted against military funding every time the issue has been brought to the floor of the senate. Kerry’s foreign policy position in a time of war includes attempting to co-opt Ronald Reagan in Wednesday night’s...

Saturday, October 16, 2004 WASHINGTON — John Kerry (search) said Friday there is a "great potential" for a new military draft to replace overextended U.S. troops in Iraq if President Bush (search) wins a second term, despite Bush's repeated pledges to maintain the all-volunteer service. Republicans rejected the suggestion as "fear mongering." Bush and his Democratic challenger also sparred over jobs and other domestic issues as they campaigned through battleground states in the Midwest. At a rally in Milwaukee, Kerry said Bush was "out of ideas, out of touch and unwilling to change" and accused him of mishandling the economy....

Kerry raised the draft issue in an interview in The Des Moines Register published Friday. "With George Bush the plan for Iraq is more of the same and the great potential of a draft. Because if we go it alone, I don't know how you do it with the current overextension" of the military, Kerry said. Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt dismissed Kerry's comments as "fear mongering" and suggested the Massachusetts senator was spreading "false Internet rumors."

MILWAUKEE -- Campaigning in crucial battleground states, John F. Kerry yesterday sought to keep voters focused on the lackluster economy, while aides were busy explaining his assertion that President Bush may revive the draft if reelected and defending the senator's comment on gays in the last presidential debate. Kerry caught even some of his advisers off guard late Thursday night by questioning Bush's word that he would maintain an ''all-volunteer army" in a meeting with the Des Moines Register's editorial board, arguing that Bush will soon run short of US forces to patrol Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. ''With George Bush,...

Via Drudge, but all commentary is mine. Rock the Vote is back pushing the Draft lie. It has teamed up with Bobby Muller of Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation and Alliance for Security ( http://www.allianceforsecurity.org/). Muller is a left-wing anti-war activist. He was on Hannity and Colmes tonight and pushed the lie that those that served with Kerry (on his boat) all support Kerry and none of the Swift Boat Vets served with Kerry (as if fighting in the same battle while being on another swift boat ten feet away from Kerry's boat, living in the same base camp, and...

Three decades ago I was running The Last Resort, the big hostel in Vancouver, Canada, for draft dodgers and military deserters. A couple of years before that I’d co-founded and directed the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme, Canada’s major draft dodger assistance organization. And a while before that I’d burned my draft card. So why was it that, in the late 1990s, I was petitioning the Army’s Legal Services Agency to waive its age requirement (the ceiling is age 35) and let me enlist in the JAG Corps, the Army’s lawyer corps? Why was it that I’d offered to serve in Korea...

From promises of miracle cures to claims of a renewed military draft during a second Bush term, Kerry and Edwards have gone loco. This isn't just electioneering...all politicians are prone to stretching it a bit. This is antisocial behavior. This kind of talk is injurious to American citizens. Following the tragic death of Christopher Reeve, John Edwards made his infamous promise that quadriplegics would walk again during a Kerry administration...purportedly because unlimited stem cell research would find a cure during a Kerry administration. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/12/edwards.stem.cell/ Doctors of jurisprudence (Lawyers) like John Edwards are grievously incapable of making such farfetched medical claims....

President George Bush today issued an executive order reinstituting the military draft in order to boost his chances of winning reelection on November 2. Top Democrat leaders like Howard Dean, Michael Moore and John Forbes Kerry have warned for weeks that Mr. Bush plans to restart the draft if he wins a second term, so today's sudden announcement surprised many. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the president made the decision based on new polling data which shows that Mr. Bush enjoys overwhelming popularity among U.S. military personnel, and 94 percent of them plan to vote. "Two-thirds of the military...

"President Bush tells us we're making progress in Iraq, yet his own advisers say the situation is growing worse each day. He said we could secure the peace with less than 140,000 troops, yet with 90% of active duty troops deployed overseas, the mission remains" Also: "90% of active duty brigades deployed overseas" http://www.bushandthedraft.com/facts.html

As part of his 100 day plan to change America, John Kerry will propose a comprehensive service plan that includes requiring mandatory service for high school students and four years of college tuition in exchange for two years of national service.

CALL 202 962-9710 Hans Reimer, Political Director of Rock The Vote - He is the one responsible for this LIE: Kerry Still Says Bush Plan Could Lead to Draft... MTV/ROCK THE VOTE CONTINUE CALL-UP SCARE... I contacted MTV ROCK THE VOTE TO PROTEST URBAN MYTH LIE ON THEIR WEBSITE ... I insinsted its a lie and to AT MINIMUM state that the fcat is that Senator Fritz Hollings and Charlie Rangel are DEMOCRATS who sponsored this bill which is dead in committe. No Administration official has ever suggested draft. The RTV guy kept giving me BS canned answer about "It's...

Recently, a friend of mine returned from a tour of duty in Iraq; and I was later informed that he had made 16 registered kills. A 20 year-old man with 16 Registered kills? From my friend? The very same person that I got into a fight with after baseball practice in eight grade? Am I supposed to be happy about that? Should I go and pat him on the back and congratulate him for what he has done? In all reality I will tell him that I am proud of him and support him, but I should not have to...

Letter to John Kerry: It's a Matter of Honor, Sir Written by Arnold Beizer Friday, October 15, 2004 Letter to Candidate John Kerry Dear Sir: We all know you have failed and neglected to sign Form 180 authorizing release of all your military service records as President George W. Bush has done, despite your broken promise on national television to news reporter Tim Russert to do so. Instead, you have repeatedly stonewalled on this character issue and left a question of honor on the minds of every American. You have called your own honesty into question by refusing to be...

I just e-mailed Hannity to point out, someone should should tell the young people that if Kerry wins, the draft will be reinstated for sure. The majority in the military today will not re-enlist and who would want to volunteer when your Kerry is the Kommander in Chief. JMHO

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. The supposedly non-partisan "Rock the Vote" campaign recently sent out an e-mail to a whole slew of young people basically saying that if things in Iraq don't improve then the draft is inevitable and that we should "take a stand now by registering to vote." They also cited stretch troop deployments across the world, the possibility of a future conflict on the Korean peninsula or elsewhere in the Middle East; the ability of the president and Congress to approve of and begin the draft process in two or three days; and...

There he goes again: Sen. John Kerry apparently thinks the American people are so stupid and uninformed that they'll blame President Bush for Democrats' effort to renew the military draft. Then again, Kerry's campaign of deceit has been working, according to a recent poll. The Des Moines Register today quoted Kerry as claiming, "With George Bush, the plan for Iraq is more of the same and the great potential of a draft." In reality, as NewsMax's Insider Report noted last week, it's Kerry's own party that has been trying to do that. When will Kerry tell fellow Democrats Charlie Rangel...

There he goes again: Sen. John Kerry apparently thinks the American people are so stupid and uninformed that they'll blame President Bush for Democrats' effort to renew the military draft. Then again, Kerry's campaign of deceit has been working, according to a recent poll. The Des Moines Register today quoted Kerry as claiming, "With George Bush, the plan for Iraq is more of the same and the great potential of a draft." In reality, as NewsMax's Insider Report noted last week, it's Kerry's own party that has been trying to do that. When will Kerry tell fellow Democrats Charlie Rangel...

"John Kerry's efforts to spread false internet rumors on the draft undermine his own credibility. He has demonstrated for the second day in a row that he is a candidate willing to do or say anything to score political points. The American people saw John Kerry this week cast aside any attempt at decency and his fear mongering today confirms that." - Steve Schmidt, Bush-Cheney '04 Spokesman Kerry Is Continuing To Spread Rumors About The DraftKerry Says That If President Bush Wins Re-Election There Is "A Great Potential" For A Military Draft. "There is 'a great potential' for a...

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...

There is a "great potential of a draft" to replenish U.S. forces in Iraq (news - web sites) if President Bush (news - web sites) wins a second term, Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites) 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 (news - web sites), the plan for Iraq is more of...