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Theoretically everybody saw this when they followed Lambert's lead to the *F*Buckard story over at Digby, but here's another shot. Don't bother unless you have, hope to have, once had, once were, know any, or otherwise care about a teenage boy:

If there was ever a man with less moral authority to call up a draft than the phony AWOL flyboy, I don't know who it would be. He has even less than someone who went to Canada --- at least that person had to live with the consequences of his actions. This was a guy who had the gall to shove to the front of the line, play around with a million dollar airplane for a couple of years and then check out early for reasons we can only speculate about.

All young people in this country should vote for John Kerry and they should drag their slacker friends to the polls with them. He faced all these choices head on in the crucible of his generation and he came out a man of strength and integrity. Bush ran away. Young people should realize that he will not hesitate to put their lives on the line to cover his ass. He did it to his fellow young men when he was twenty one years old, he's doing it to reserves and national guard troops today and he'll do it to young people with a draft tomorrow. It's in his character to make others fight his battles and clean up his messes for him.

Go read the whole thing for the documentation: DOD documents (mysteriously "scrubbed" off their website by people who never heard of Google Cache) about how they're revving up the old Selective Service Boards again. My sons are 24 and 15, I'd sure appreciate if this news got around a little more.