Posted on 04/22/2004 10:02:37 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:14:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday dismissed the notion of reinstating the military draft, saying that the Pentagon, if needed, can dig deeper into Reserve and National Guard forces to relieve troops deployed in the war on terrorism.
"I don't know anyone in the executive branch of the government who believes it would be appropriate or necessary to reinstitute the draft," Mr. Rumsfeld told a Washington gathering of members of the Newspaper Association of America, the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Associated Press.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
"Should we continue to burden the middle class who represents most all of our soldiers, and the lower-middle class?" he said. "Should we burden them with the fighting and the dying if in fact this is a generational probably 25-year war?"
Democrats in both chambers Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York and Sen. Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina have introduced bills calling for the reinstatement of the draft.
And should this surprise anyone?
Politicians politicizing the defense of our nation.
The burden is placed by government mandate NOT by freedom of choice of an individual to walk the path of their choice.
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