TO THE EDITOR
BACK TO CRAWFORD
Letter-writers Ron Unger and Mark
Rabinowitz (7/15) address the Nader candi-
dacy from different directions. We admit that
we strongly supported him in 2000, but this
time around our motto is, “Vote for Nader and
re-elect Bush.”
The Kerry-Edwards ticket may not be
perfect, but it’s the best and most electable
ticket to send George W. Bush back to
Crawford, Texas, where he and his accom-
plices can do less harm to our country, our
lives and planet Earth. That’s Job #1.
Period.
John Saemann
Eugene
BACK-DOOR DRAFT
After watching the Kerry acceptance
speech last week I am very concerned. Kerry
said he would enlist 40,000 new troops and
stop the “back-door draft.” How is he going
to do that? Does he plan to re-institute the,
“Front door draft?” This has me so concerned
that unless Kerry says in public he will not re-
institute the draft I will not vote for him.
As of this moment I am campaigning for
Kerry because Bush and his cronies are so
awful. But I am concerned that a Democrat
may be able to get away with bring back the
draft more easily than Bush. I want to be
able to vote for Kerry but this is a “make or
break” issue for me. I urge everyone who is
concerned about this issue to e-mail and/or
send letters to: The Democratic National
Committee, P.O. Box 96585, Washington
D.C,, 20077-7242, and tell them to tell
Kerry to publicly state he will not bring back
the military draft or you will not vote for
him.
Anand Keathley
Eugene
duty with honor and the other went AWOL.
Kerry has been reluctant to talk about his mil-
itary days while Bush, and his handlers, do
what they can to hide his record and distort
Kerry’s.
We need a better and more honest ap-
proach to coverage of this election. From
electronic voting machines to biased media,
mix in a little short-term memory with a lazy
and distracted populace and government cor-
ruption. What do you get? What we got and
probably deserved, G.W. Bush and his neo-
con retreads. Half of us did not vote in 2000.
If this happens again, well I guess we deserve
it. Demand the truth from media and govern-
ment.
Michael Cozad
Eugene
MONUMENTAL BLUNDER
The Bush war in Iraq is a blunder of mon-
umental proportions. Iraq’s heralded
“weapons of mass destruction” have been re-
vealed to be nothing more than a figment of
Bush’s imagination. And Iraq’s ties to Al-
Qaeda, tenuous at best, in all probability
never existed.
Yet we continue to hemorrhage vast sums
of money into Iraq, even as the uncon-
scionable Bush budget deficit balloons to an
all time record. And the heart-rending proces-
sion of military caskets from Iraq goes on un-
abated, while Jihad crazed Islamic funda-
mentalists continue their ghastly carnage of
beheadings and suicide bombings.
Without a doubt we should continue our
war on violent terrorism. But the unprovoked
Bush war in Iraq is the wrong war at the
wrong place at the wrong time. Let’s end this
insanity. Vote for The Johns in November.
Martin Matson
Eugene
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How can anyone compare what these two
men did during Vietnam? Both came from
backgrounds allowing a free choice so to
speak. Both graduated from college and came
from good homes. Kerry went to war and
Bush went to fly fighters. One finished his
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