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1. RogerA:

The backdoor draft exercise redux–Notice Edwards surfaced it a couple of days ago; now it appears as an email to college students–While I am not particularly a devotee of conspiracy theories, this looks like a coordinated effort. The fallacy is, of course, enlistments and reenlistments are doing just fine.

There is something absolutely rotten about the democrats whose only modus vivendi seems to be scaring seniors about social security and college students about an ersatz draft–To paraphrase Joseph Welch: Have you no shame?

Sep 21, 2004 - 7:50 pm 2. mudmarine:

Thanks Roger, interesting information. I happen to live next to the UofA, I will ask my nephew (student there) if he received this.

OT

Tried to sign in to Blogger.com to make a comment, it would not let me unless I had a blog, or am I just stupid?

And, no, RogerA, I do not believe that word is in their lexicon.

Sep 21, 2004 - 7:56 pm 3. Rick Ballard:

mudmarine,

Just fill it out and submit without a URL. It will say that it’s rejected but then allow you to comment anyway. At least it did for me.

Sep 21, 2004 - 8:31 pm 4. Richard Nieporent:

Does one detect a pattern here? First the fake Killian memos and now this email hoax. I guess it is just business as usual for the Democrats.

Sep 21, 2004 - 8:47 pm 5. mudmarine:

Thanks Rick, I will try that.

Sep 21, 2004 - 8:48 pm 6. rastajenk:

Howie Dean floated the draft notion in some remarks not long ago, within the last week. Sounds pretty coordinated to me.

Ahhahaha, I just googled “Howard Dean draft” to see if I could catch a link, and gots lots of ‘em: all about how Dean was a draft-dodger. Jeezus cletus, what a party.

Sep 21, 2004 - 9:08 pm 7. Kevin P:

Roger:

I posted on your site a month or so ago when I saw Robert Reich try the same sleazy tactic on one of the cable or late night talk shows.I can’t remember the show or the date but as they were going to commercial break he tossed off something along the lines of “Oh, their going to bring back the draft without mentioning that it was the DEMOCRATS who were sponsoring the bill.

The Kerry camp has shown that it will do or say anything to win and they have been planning to go dirty long before Estrich announced their tactics. I don’t know if there is any way of tracking down my post but it did mention the show where Reich trotted out this underhanded Nixonian ploy.

Sep 21, 2004 - 9:38 pm 8. Mark Poling:

Every blog on the planet scared of Kerry should have a post titled: “Kerry Plans To Reinstate Draft” linked to Betsy’s Page.

Here’s mine.

Sep 21, 2004 - 11:53 pm 9. Pearl:

What bothers me is that this scare tactic shows something else – if they can convince enough students that the draft will be reinstated, how those students react may determine the future course of this country.

Unlike Vietnam, this is not a “local” war. This is a Global War. It’s happening all over the world. Should it become necessary to have troops in this country to defend against attacks here, I don’t think it will make any difference who is President. The draft would be reinstated. What then? Do we see young men (since they are not requiring women) fleeing the country in droves to avoid this service? Pretty telling, if that is the way kids view having to fight to preserve the country.

I hope that most of them will realize that this is a scare tactic and have some semblence of honor should it ever become necessary to defend our own shores against attacks.

I believe that we do not need to have a draft at this time and I think the WH also feels this way.

Sep 22, 2004 - 1:42 am 10. Charlie (Colorado):

Bush doesn’t want a draft, Defense doesn’t want a draft, and, frankly, even being a ground grunt is a job that increasingly takes relatively long training and a smart operator. Drafting someone for two years doesn’t make sense.

Maybe because I’m grumpily awake in an unplanned fashion at 3AM, I kind of even find myself wondering if Rangel et al didn’t file their draft bill specifically because it let’s the DNC casually mention the upcoming draft, figuring that no one will notice who made the suggestion.

Sep 22, 2004 - 1:53 am 11. M. Simon:

Mud Marine:

You are correct about blogger which is why you can now find my concentrated goodness at:

Power and Control

Sep 22, 2004 - 4:29 am 12. Syl:

Mandatory draft for grannies (ages 60-85) starting June 15, 2005.

There is pending legislation in the House and Senate, S999a and HR 7777, to reinstate mandatory draft for Grannies. This plan rejects Grampas in the draft, eliminates Bingo night as a shelter, and makes it difficult to cross into Florida.

Sep 22, 2004 - 5:21 am 13. chuck:

Syl,

It’s just a Democratic ploy to equalize life expectancy.

Sep 22, 2004 - 5:46 am 14. Terrye:

I would say this is worth sending off to some people. I wonder if Fox would do a story on somethinbg like this.

The US military is too picky to draft people.

Sep 22, 2004 - 6:01 am 15. Brian:

That email – or a version of it – has been going the rounds for close to two years now. Tremendous mileage they got out of those two phony bills.

Maybe the phantom draft is responsible for the disappearing middle class?

Sep 22, 2004 - 7:27 am 16. Larry J:

I agree with a comment on the linked page. This is a great opportunity for campus Republican organizations to point out that the only ones behind the cited legislation are Democrats. It’s time to hammer Democrats with this point. This could be a “say what?” eye opening experience for a lot of college kids who are still gullible enough to believe what the Democrats say.

Sep 22, 2004 - 8:13 am 17. Roberts:

Roger,

Many months ago, I posted as a comment to some posting on your blog something like “Lies are all that’s left to the Democratic Party”. You sent me a polite email chiding me ( correctly ) for an excess of rhetoric.

Hmmm, I’m feeling that urge again, Roger …

Sep 22, 2004 - 8:17 am

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