McCain
On Reinstituting A Military Draft: ‘I Don’t Disagree’
21/08/08 -Think
Progress- At a town hall
meeting (21/08/08) , an audience member praised Sen. John McCain
(R-AZ) for his vow to “follow
bin Laden to the gates of hell.” After a long question about
veterans’ care, the questioner said she believed we needed to
reinstate the draft, to which McCain seemed to readily agree:
QUESTIONER: If we don’t
reenact the draft, I don’t think we’ll have anyone to chase
Bin Laden to the gates of hell.
[Appaluse]
MCCAIN: Ma’am, let
me say that I don’t disagree with anything you said.
In June, McCain said it would
take an “all-out World War III” to make the draft necessary —
which seems to mean
he’d consider it. In July 2006, when asked to react to Newt
Gingrich’s claim that “You’d have to say to yourself this is in
fact World War III,” McCain said, “I
do [agree] to some extent.”
Asked about the draft last
September, McCain said, “I
might consider it, I don’t think it’s necessary, but I might
consider it if you could design a draft where everybody equally
could serve.”
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Senator
McCain I truly hope you get the opportunity to chase Bin
Laden right to the gates of hell and push him in as you
stated on your forum. I do have a question though. Disable
veterans, especially in this state have horrible conditions,
their medical is substandard. They drive four hours one way
to Albuquerque for a simple doctors appointment which is
often canceled. Our VA hospital is dirty it is understaffed,
it is running on maximum overload. The prescription
medicines are ten years behind standard medical care we have
seven hundred claims stacked up at the VA office in
Albuquerque some of them are ten and seven years old waiting
to be processed in the mean time these people are homeless.
My son is an officer in the Air Force, and I am a vet and I
was raised in a military family. I think it is a sad state
of affairs when we have illegal aliens having a Medicaid
card that can access specialist top physicians, the best of
medical and our vets can’t even get to a doctor. These are
the people that we tied yellow ribbons for and Bush patted
on the back. If we don’t reenact the draft I don’t think we
will have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell.
MCCAIN: Ma’am let me say
that I don’t disagree with anything you said and thank you
and I am grateful for your support of all of our veterans.
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