"Draft" voter registration mailing blamed for year's negative campaigning

[seemslikeadream]

JIM DAVENPORT
Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The chairman of the state Republican Party says Democrats set the tone for a rough-and-tumble ad war in the U.S. Senate race with a mailing this summer that plays on fears of a military draft.

The mailing, sent out this summer, included a voter registration form. The first page showed a draft notice with orders to report to a Pittsburgh military induction center. The next showed a helicopter with troops in the foreground beneath a headline that says "Officials in Washington are calling for more troops in Iraq." Below, the mailing asked "Which form would you rather fill out?"

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In the mailing, "we targeted especially young black men," Erwin said. In wars, "who is often going? It is the poor. It is the less educated that are going to fight the wars."

In a National Annenberg Election Survey earlier this month, 51 percent of adults age 18 to 29 said President Bush wants to reinstate the draft. A fourth of those polled said neither Bush nor his opponent, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, favors the idea.

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"This is a mischievous political effort that's being made to frighten young men and women," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday. "The truth is we do not need a draft. We're not going to have a draft."

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[aden_nak]

1. That's such a crock of shit, I can hardly bother to mock it.

Whatever, Don. You're not going to have a CHOICE.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. They'd just call it something else.

Anyhow, the whole underlying plan is to crush the middle class and depress wages to third-world levels in order to increase corporate profits for the wealthiest 2%. One result of this will be that poor kids who can't afford college or get decent jobs (and there will be many more of them) will have to join the army just to survive. No "draft" needed then?

[loudsue]

3. Bush lied to CONGRESS. Bush lied to the UNITED NATIONS. Bush lied

to ALL of us about ....well, pick a topic! Any young adult who naively BELIEVED shrub the other day when he said "there will be no draft!!", hasn't paid ANY attention to bush's long long history of going back on his word.

If shrub is elected again THERE WILL BE A DRAFT!!!

You can take that one to the bank.

:kick::kick::kick:

[Inland]

4. What a great ad!

And it works because we all know there will be a draft as soon as Bush is freed from the last restriction on his power, ie, his need to keep the fraud going until he is sworn in for another term.