How will Bush justify going back on his word regarding a military draft?

[The Night Owl]

Make predictions now for future reference.

[wryter2000]

1. He'll call it something else

The fighting forces enhancement act

[Avalux]

6. Yep - opposite speak

that's what they'll do. A trick learned from the Nazis.

[TheDebbieDee]

2. As with everything else, the Media will spin that he never said it!

[dogtag]

3. Czars do not have to justify anything!

[skooooo]

4. Blame it on the Generals...or Clinton..whoever is handy..

..and the public will lap it up as sons and daughters head for the middle east.

[dignan27]

5. Another major attack would do the trick

9/11 apparently gave him the right to go back on most of his major 2000 campaign promises, except tax cuts, I would think another attack should let him get away with anything else he needs.

[xray s]

7. he doesn't want to reinstate the draft, but God told him he has to.

that will be accepted by 50% of the voting public

[yorkiemommie1]

18. they've accepted all of the other lies

and convoluted logic...

all he has to do is use the word 'values' and stand behind a pulpit, uh, i mean lectern...

maybe with "Onward Christian Soldiers" playing in the background.
That song should be his theme song.

[NMDemDist2]

8. he'll deny he ever said it and remind us all that it's our "patriotic duty

to fight the war on terra and keep the homeland safe"

[Nimrod]

9. "God told me to"

That's all he'll need to satisfy his base, and he's already told the rest of us to go fuck ourselves in just that many words.

[wurzel]

10. It won't be a "military draft". A phrase Bush always used.

It will be a "Homeland draft". It may be hidden somewhere in the "Patriot Act".

[LiberalVoice]

11. He won't

He hasn't had to justify a single fucking thing since he stole the presidency (the first time). What makes you think he'll have to?

[cvoogt]

12. The Volunteer Army Enforcement Act /nt

[Z_I_Peevey]

13. He's the preznit, heh, heh, heh

and he likes it that he doesn't have to explain himself to anybody, remember?

[jmags]

14. There won't be a draft.

They can't get away with that. They'll just find a way to tuck tail and pull out of Iraq within the next year. The job won't be done, the country will still be in chaos, and Republicans everywhere will support it, completely immune to everything Bush had said in the past few months.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Same way he justifies going back on his word on everything else.

He'll just ignore ever having said he wouldn't do it, and he'll give it an Orwellian name so he can claim it really isn't a draft anyhow. And by the way, just today the Selective Service published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register that would merge the computer databases of the SS and the Dept. of Education. This way, the Selective Service could prevent students who haven't registered for the draft from getting student loans. The draft is coming... count on it.

[Lilli]

16. after the medical peeps are drafted he'll use the terra terra argument and

the sheep will happily step up and be slaughtered.

[hollywood926]

17. That's easy...appeal to your patriotism. n/t

[smiley_glad_hands]

19. Terra, Terra, Terra, Terra

Say that enought and the sheeple will forget all about it.

[mourningdove92]

20. He will deny he said it and call it another "EXAGERATION"

[undercover_brother]

21. The media would never call him on it.

[MatrixEscape]

22. He now thinks he can do anything he wants to without justification! n/t

[bobbieinok]

23. K/E + dems encouraged terrorists, Iraq, etc ... therefore 'I regretfully..