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Thursday, August 21, 2008
Fodder for John McCain's Military Draft
The Young Voters Index found that in North Carolina 200,000 young citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 still haven't registered to vote. That amounts to 23 percent of that age group ... unregistered, unengaged, too cool for school.
Labels: military draft, youth vote
President McCain Would Bring Back the Draft?
All that saber-rattling, 100-years-in-Iraq talk, follow Bin Laden to the gates of hell braggadocio WOULD seem to point to the need to reinstate the military draft, and John McCain signaled yesterday that the draft is exactly where he'd push the nation if he's elected president.A woman in the audience at a McCain town-hall meeting in Las Cruces, N.M., said, very logically, "If we don't reenact the draft, I don't think we'll have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell."
And McCain responded, "Ma'am, let me say that I don't disagree with anything you said."
To which, Jon Soltz, Iraq War veteran and chairman of VoteVets.org, said, very logically, "At least Senator McCain is being honest. A vote for him is a vote for the draft. Period. Unless Senator McCain radically changes his worldview, there would be a draft to implement his plans."
This is news. So far, the McCain campaign has not issued any denials.
Labels: John McCain, military draft
