Republican National Committee “survey” taps fear of military draft to raise funds

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“Are you in favor of reinstituting the military draft, as Democrats in Congress have proposed?” That’s one of 15 questions the Republican National Committee uses to drum up funds in a “2010 Obama Agenda Survey” that arrived in Minnesota mailboxes this week. A search of current legislation suggests that no such proposal is pending in Congress.

It has been almost three years since U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, a Democrat from New York, last introduced his bill to bring back the draft. Rangel’s effort has been less pro-draft than anti-war; his gambit is that conscription, or even talk of it, would act as a brake on United States military adventures.

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Bill Galvin, counseling coordinator at the Center on Conscience and War in Washington, D.C., tells the Minnesota Independent he hasn’t heard of any recent legislation regarding the military draft.

But you wouldn’t know that from the RNC’s mailing. The “survey,” RNC Chairman Michael Steele writes in a cover letter, “is your opportunity to let Republican leaders … know where you stand on the policies and programs being proposed by Barack Obama and his Democrat allies in Congress.” It isn’t long before he gets to the sales pitch: “I’m asking you to include a contribution to the Republican National Committee …”

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http://minnesotaindependent.com/51963/rnc-military-draft-survey-rangel

[HopeHoops]

1. Funny that they never mentioned this when the shrub was in office.

[Mari333]

2. considering the way 160 dems voted on the Kucinich bill

never ending war, if the republicans want to lie they have some real help now from the dems.