An Army of 50 Million?

The surpassingly dishonest draft debate.

BY Winston Groom

December 11, 2006, Vol. 12, No. 13

One of the most cynical political tricks played in the 2004 presidential campaign was the false rumor, started by Democrats, that if George W. Bush was reelected, he secretly planned to reinstate the military draft. Clearly, this was aimed at striking fear into the American student population and their frightened mothers, in order to mobilize them to go out and vote for the antiwar candidate, John Kerry.

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