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Congress holds phony vote on draft. Plays Politics with lives of young America.

What the youth that sees this is more than likely not going to realize is that this was a proposal made by the Democrats. How much would you like to bet that the majority of young men seeing this page will think it was a Bush proposed draft reinstatement.

I would be inclined to bet heavily that is exactly what the Democrats intended to be thought when the proposal was made.

Dirty, dirty Democrats.

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Kerry Says Bush Plan Could Lead to Draft

Oct 15, 12:59 PM (ET)

By The Associated Press

There is a "great potential of a draft" to replenish U.S. forces in Iraq if President Bush wins a second term, Democratic challenger John Kerry said on a campaign stop in Iowa.

Bush said in the second presidential debate that there would be no revival of the military draft under any circumstances if he is re-elected. "We're not going to have a draft, period," the president said.

However, Kerry told The Des Moines Register, "With George Bush, the plan for Iraq is more of the same and the great potential of a draft." The interview was published Friday as Kerry was leaving for Wisconsin and a speech on the economy.

Kerry is telling voters that Bush's record on jobs and taxes has helped special interests, not their interests, as he heads into the final stretch of his presidential campaign with running mate John Edwards.

He prepared to deliver the first in a series of speeches that aides describe as the campaign's "closing arguments" in Milwaukee, the first stop of a daylong drive through Wisconsin. A record 2004 federal deficit of $413 billion reported Thursday fueled the Democrats.

"We know that the strength of our economy isn't just about how many jobs we've gained or lost," Kerry said in remarks prepared for delivery Friday. "It's also about whether those jobs lift up our families. It's about whether our incomes are rising or falling."

Kerry portrayed the president as out of touch with the everyday challenges facing families.

"George Bush has had four years to do something - anything - to create an economy where hard working Americans can live out their dreams," Kerry said. "The problem is, this president just doesn't understand what's happened to our economy."

Bush was also campaigning in the Midwest on Friday, heading to Iowa and Wisconsin after more than a weeklong swing that included stops in Missouri and Arizona for the last two debates.

Bush has defended his economic record, saying that repeated tax cuts energized growth and helped create 1.78 million new jobs after the economy sustained terrorist attacks, a sustained stock market slide and a recession.

Wisconsin's unemployment rate runs below the national average, and the state's voters haven't seen the severe job losses afflicting other Midwestern battlegrounds. Bush has a slight lead in the state, which Democrat Al Gore won narrowly four years ago.

Some of the thousands who turned out to hear Kerry and Edwards brought brooms to signify Kerry's "sweep" of the debates. The crowd was dotted with "3-4-3" signs declaring Kerry the victor of all three face-to-face battles with Bush.

In Oregon on Thursday, Bush campaigned in Jacksonville, a historic gold-mining boomtown in the southern part of the state. Kerry appears to be making in roads in the area, a growing region near the California state line that has been a traditional Republican stronghold.

Bush lost Oregon in 2000 by less than 7,000 votes, though he handily defeated Democrat Al Gore in the county containing Jacksonville, a town created when gold was discovered here in 1851. The gold rush is long over but Jacksonville preserved its heritage and the entire town, population 2,300, is designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Interior Department.

The area has turned from a declining timber industry to tourism and retirement for its strong economy.

Bush's father paid a visit as vice president to Jacksonville, and his son repeated the compliment, staying overnight in a 141-year-old inn whose last presidential guest was Rutherford B. Hayes.

"I understand Rutherford complained about the tab; I'm not going to," Bush told thousands of cheering supporters at the Jackson County fairgrounds in nearby Central Point.

While waiting for the president to return to Jacksonville, anti-Bush protesters were dispersed by police in riot gear who fired pepperballs at them, projectiles like a paintball filled with cayenne pepper. Police took the action while moving the crowd away from the Jacksonville Inn where the president was to arrive for dinner.