"You're Dead, That Sucker Is Gone"
While John Kerry continues to get pilloried for suggesting that poor people often choose the army not out of patriotism, but out of economic necessity—something so obvious, our nation must whip itself into a frenzy of outrage that Kerry dared say it—
ABC News has a piece about how military recruiters lie to potential recruits. Some of whom, I imagine, are "uneducated," in Kerry's word.
Among the lies the recruiters told undercover reporters:
1) If they sign up, there's little chance they're going to go to Iraq.
2) We're not still at war.
3) If you don't like the Army, you can just quit.
Now, I don't want to draw any conclusions from this, but wouldn't it be more likely that you would believe these lies if you were "uneducated" than if you, say, went to college? And wouldn't it be more likely that recruiters would tell you these lies if they thought you were uneducated?
