Win by any means
Evidence of links between the Kerry Campaign and CBS' forged memos are mounting and the DNC is attempting to distract by shifting the blame to the Republicans.
But as if forged documents weren't enough, the DNC is warning about the consequences of a second Bush term to people of draft age by deliberately lying about two bills in Congress intended to reinstate the draft.
Michelle Malkin blogs about an e-mail being sent to college students found by blogger Betsy Newmark which reads:
Mandatory draft for boys and girls (ages18-26) starting June 15, 2005There is pending legislation in the House and Senate, S89 and HR 163,to reinstate mandatory draft for boys and girls (ages18-26) starting June 15, 2005. This plan includes women in the draft, eliminates higher education as a shelter, and makes it difficult to cross into Canada.
The Bush administration is quietly trying to get these bills passed now, while the public's attention is on the elections. The Bush administration plans to begin mandatory draft in the spring of 2005, just after the 2004 presidential election.
· The Congress has added $28 million to the 2004 selective service system budget to prepare for this military draft that could start as early as June 15, 2005.
· Bush has ordered the Selective Service to report to him by March 31, 2005 on their readiness to implement the draft by June 2005
· The pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide.
Please act on this:
· Tell everyone you know - parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents,
godparents, friends, teachers· Call and write to your U.S. Senator and your U.S. Representatives and ask them why they aren't telling their constituents about these bills
All of which confirms the suspicions I blogged about here. which has complete links to the bills in question as well as the names of the sponsers, none of which are Republicans.
Michelle also notes that both Howard Dean and Max Clealand are propgating the lie. If one were of a mind to be generous, one could allow that perhaps Howard and Max don't know who sponsored these bills.
However, as I blogged here, the same can not be said for Rep Jim McDermott who is both propogating the lie and a sponsor of the House bill.
How is it possible for anyone to trust a party that believes, as obviously the Democratic Party (as an institution) does, that winning by any means possible is justifiable?
The party of JFK and FDR has long ago left the building.
Update: It appears that Sen. Kerry is now also propagating this lie.
Answering a question about the draft that had been posed at a forum with voters, Kerry said: "If George Bush were to be re-elected, given the way he has gone about this war and given his avoidance of responsibility in North Korea and Iran and other places, is it possible? I can't tell you."
(hatip to Powerline)
Update II: It appears likely that the AP got it wrong with regards to Kerry. However, there is a stealth campaign being prosecuted by the Democrats and it is unlikely (though possible) that Kerry is unaware of it.
Lies they sell cheaper than bread
What they do starve the people of truth
Secretly the system programme the pain
In disguise of every day life problems-Ziggy Marley
