ANN ALTHOUSE writes that Kerry is “refueling her mistrust” with his bogus draft claims:

Quite aside from Kerry’s attempts to scare people into voting for him with a trumped-up threat that Bush will revive the draft, this statement refuels my mistrust for Kerry. His argument about the draft implicitly asserts that he plans to withdraw from Iraq without adequately providing for a successful resolution of the conflict.

That has been my fear all along, and Kerry hasn’t done much to address it. Meanwhile, reader J. H. Weible wonders if Kerry, who wants to add two new divisions, will have a recruitment-and-retention problem in light of polls like this suggesting that he’s not very popular among the military. Can Kerry produce the force he’s promising without a draft? Somebody should ask him.