Clift: Rhetoric vs. Reality (Get Security Moms thinking about draft)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6091874/site/newsweek/

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...What he's good at is reciting refrigerator-magnet phrases with mind-numbing repetitiveness. "Bush's strength is his simplicity," says a Republican strategist, "and he's got volumes of it."

In his zeal to defend the war in Iraq, Bush said on Thursday that the right track/wrong track numbers are better in Iraq than in this country. In other words, the American people are more concerned about the direction of their country than the Iraqis, who are living with a violent insurrection. It was an extraordinary moment and one that the Kerry campaign will exploit in the days ahead, and in Thursday's debate. Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s visit to Washington was supposed to be a victory tour, but it served only to underscore the misinformation served up by the Bush campaign. Not since the Iraqi information minister lampooned as "Baghdad Bob" insisted Saddam was winning the war—just as U.S. troops were on the verge of taking the Iraqi capital—has there been there been such a disjuncture between rhetoric and reality.

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A race that looked like it was Bush’s to lose just a week ago has once again tightened to within the margin of error. The combination of bad news from Iraq with Kerry finally finding his voice on the war has brought disillusioned Democrats back into the fold. A winning theme for Kerry—if he dares—is to frame the argument around the specter of a military draft. U.S. forces are stretched thin in Iraq and elsewhere. If we were to face another international crisis, where would the troops come from? With polls showing Kerry not doing as well among women as he should, the issue has obvious appeal. “The security moms are also worried about their draft-age sons—and daughters,” says a strategist. Kerry will say he opposes reinstating the draft, but it’s not implausible that one will be needed if we continue on the current course. Bush has repeatedly misled the country on Iraq, the challenger could say. What’s to stop him from doing it again?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Alter says the same thing:

I have been saying that the Draft issue if pushed will make "Security Moms" into Democratic Moms!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x75627

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6099727/site/newsweek

[cornermouse]

4. A renewal of the draft would make a bunch of angry Moms.

And its never a good idea to make a Mom mad. We all know that Moms have ways of getting even.

;)

[madrchsod]

2. mothers all over this country

will gladly offer their daughters to serve george bush.

[Hello_Kitty]

3. Let 'em then

I have no sympathy for anyone who supports Bush, no matter who they have fighting over there.

[Fovea]

5. The issue becomes a lot clearer when

it is no long poor brown kids going over for supposed college benefits and VA medical.

No, this war on Islamists (though don't call it a Crusade, for Goddess' sake) will require a draft and PDQ, because the PNAC strategy of whacking the hornet's nest with a stick repeatedly for the sake of security is reaching its buzzing crescendo with the sale of weapons, specifically meant to give Israel capability against Iran.

Monotheism, (in a cultural expression of its practitioner's own individual death wishes) is reaching for its dark telos- an apotheosis of naked greed wrapped in a teeth to throat struggle to prove whose God is bigger.

Why do so many wish to die? It is because we have taken the promise of the future, the dominant theme of our childhoods, and turned it into a global dystopia.

Those outside the monotheist/laissezfaire capitalist cultural totentanz know what we squandered for so much of the world -- such things as universal health care, globally, would be a huge boon to humanity, and it still remains within our grasp. It, and the declaration of public goods of health, food and transport would actually *free* the market to act more like Smith envisioned. Equitable corporate responsibility to citizenship would also make for more competition. And the real capitalism under democracy would occur, as opposed the this obscene parody of oligarchy under plutocracy.

But the PNACers are not capitalists. They are resource oligarchs, and free markets for slave labor and the privitization of public goods are the only free markets they espouse.

When the draft starts, the anti * backlash will be severe, but there will be no 2008 elections, so who cares?

Tell your security mom friends that only a strong commitment from NATO and the Islamic world can forestall the draft, and the conflagration that the NeoCons desperately need. Is it still too soon to compare Iraq to the anschluss in 39?