A few weeks ago, Vice President Cheney was widely criticized for making a statement that was often misquoted by the media. That statement suggested that, if the country elects a Democratic administration in November and we return to the policies of the previous Democratic administration, we'd be more vulnerable to terrorist attacks on US soil. This was widely 'headlined' similarly to this: "Cheney says terrorists will attack if Kerry elected!"
Today, Democratic Presidential candidate, John Kerry suggested that, if George Bush is re-elected, he would re-institute the draft. This is reported here ABCNEWS.com : Kerry: Draft Likely to Return Under Bush.
Where's the media outrage for this?
UPDATE: I would have to say, after seeing footage of Kerry's appearance, the article I linked to at ABC misrepresented Kerry's statement - not unlike the media did with Cheney's. Kerry did not say "Bush will re-instate the draft if re-elected", but he did raise it as a possibility. What he didn't mention is, most of the support, including proposed bills in Congress, are being submitted by Democrats.
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No, but he did have his surrogates make the following statements:
“America will reinstate the military draft” if Bush is re-elected and continues the Iraq War, Max Cleland predicted, according to an account of his speech by the Colorado Springs Gazette.
Howard Dean said "I think that George Bush is certainly going to have a draft if he goes into a second term, and any young person that doesn't want to go to Iraq might think twice about voting for him."
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.
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