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Edwards / Kerry on the Draft

by Bryan Strawser · Sep 15, 2004

This is a monumentally stupid thing to say, as reported today in the Boston Globe:

Vice presidential candidate John Edwards promised a West Virginia mother on Wednesday that if the Democratic ticket is elected in November the military draft would not be revived.

During a question-and-answer session, the mother of a 23-year-old who recently graduated from West Virginia University asked Edwards whether the draft would be reinstated.

”There will be no draft when John Kerry is president,” Edwards said, a statement that drew a standing ovation.

It’s a stupid thing to say because no one can predict the future.

What if we’re attacked and have to goto war against another country – say Iran, or North Korea, or Jordan, or Syria, or the Sudan – who knows? What if our current military structure and force levels isn’t enough?

What if?

What if?

No one thought something like 9/11 would ever happen to us either – but it did – and it’s changed our worldview.

What’s he thinking? Everything will be hunky-dory if Kerry and he are elected?

This ranks right up there with “Read my Lips”….

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