Posted on 09/17/2004 10:19:07 AM PDT by tickles
You may recall that not long ago, some young fool had himself shot and wounded, to escape this hallucinatory hazard.
The bills are not being pushed. It's quite true that the two bills mentioned would require both men and women aged 18 through 25 to perform a two-year period of "national service," which incidentally could be either military or non-military service. But the bills are sponsored only by Democrats, and there's not the slightest evidence that the Bush administration is pushing for them, quietly or otherwise.
One bill is HR 163 , whose principle sponsor is Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York. It has 14 co-sponsors, all of them Democrats in a Congress controlled by Republicans. The bill was dead on arrival: it sits in a House subcommittee with no hearings or votes scheduled and no action expected.
In fact, Rangel told FactCheck.org through his spokesman Emile Milne that even he isn't pushing for passage, let alone Bush (emphasis added):
Rep. Rangel: I'm not pushing this bill . It's up to the President to come to me when he needs it.
The identical Senate bill, S. 89 , introduced by Democratic Sen. Ernest Hollings, and also was DOA. Not one other senator has co-sponsored it. It also sits in committee with no action scheduled or expected.
Both bills in question were drawn up before the Iraq war started, mostly to make a political point. Rangel said he acted to highlight Democratic objections to use of military force against Saddam Hussein. He wrote , "I truly believe that decision-makers who support war would more readily feel the pain of conflict and appreciate the sacrifice of those on the front lines if their children were there, too."
See #22...even Rangel admits it is a political stunt.
The only people pushing for the draft are people that voted against the war, and all dems. Rumsfield has said if they need a draft it will be because he screwed up. Ain't gonna be no draft while he's around, which could be part of the reason the Dems are pushing for him to resign.
you hang around here long enough you get flammed for stuff, I know I have. lots of good resources here too. I have gotten good a reserching just to defend my position
Ok I answered this 'letter' with a list of the bills sponsers and the article listed here. I have put my flame proof suit on, wonder if i'll be banned from that list. oh well. funny thing is 'polotics' are supposed to be banned from the list, except for occasional disscussions on disabilty issues.
the sender of this message is one of the 'list' owners who occasionally lets us uninformed ones know about the dastardly republicans who want to take evenything away from we the people...so he gets by with posting political stuff and alot of the replies are from people who think like him. sigh. will let you know what happens. I'm sure i'll get a very sarcastic message. hehe.
sorry about the spelling errors in the previous message. sigh.
This is the lady who appeared in the phony CBS story about the draft:
Beverly Cocco
babby61754@comcast.net
This is her email address.. we should all send her a piece of our mind....
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