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Rep. Rangel will seek to reinstate draft
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| November 19, 2006
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Posted on 11/19/2006 10:30:36 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: The_Media_never_lie
"Rangle is a likeable person. He is also smart and served our country well."
No he isn't. No he hasn't.
To: DManA
Were our fathers too stupid to see the threat? To lazy and corrupt to take on the task without a gun to their heads?Well, it would certainly seem so.
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11/19/2006 12:49:30 PM PST
by
Jim Noble
(To preserve the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity)
To: Brilliant
there is a large pool of illegal immigrants who could earn their citizenship by serving, what about that charlie?
To: ilovew
He did the same damn thing in 2004 so the dims could scare people into voting for them, by claiming that President Bush was going to bring back the draft. Even though it was HIS legislation. And then he called foul when Republicans brought it up for a vote because he didn't actually want to *pass* his own legislation, he just wanted to be a complete jackass. Which he regularly succeeds in doing.And if the MSM wasn't in the tank for the Dems, this article would have pointed that out.
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posted on
11/19/2006 12:52:14 PM PST
by
L.N. Smithee
(Mostafa Tabatabainejad: Like the Toyota commercials used to say, "YOU asked for it...you GOT it!")
To: Sam Hill
Nice picture, where was is George Soros?
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To: toddlintown
Actually, the low end model of the PS3 sells for $499.00.
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posted on
11/19/2006 12:53:21 PM PST
by
reg45
To: antiunion person
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posted on
11/19/2006 12:54:13 PM PST
by
Defender2
(Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
To: L.N. Smithee
And of course Rangel didn't even vote for his own damn bill. Only John "Cut And Run" Murtha (D) and Pete Stark (D) voted for it. In all of the House.
To: leadpenny
"All I can say is the draft has been held constitutional."
So has abortion.
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posted on
11/19/2006 12:55:55 PM PST
by
Ace of Spades
(Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: scannell
>> Well when it comes to Armies, you need Big Numbers
You forget to mention black & white TVs and rotary phones.
To: reg45
"Actually, the low end model of the PS3 sells for $499.00."
Try to find one at that price.
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posted on
11/19/2006 12:57:28 PM PST
by
toddlintown
(Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
To: rabscuttle385
They may not vote Republican, but they surely won't vote Democrat. Libertarian, perhaps.
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posted on
11/19/2006 12:58:49 PM PST
by
reg45
To: Brilliant
Like Rangel, most 18-28 boys are too fat to be drafted.
This is discriminatory against fit men.
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posted on
11/19/2006 12:58:53 PM PST
by
Finalapproach29er
(Dems will impeach Bush if given a chance.)
To: Brilliant
At a time when some lawmakers are urging the military to send more troops to Iraq, "I don't see how anyone can support the war and not support the draft," he said.This is the key. Rangel is trying to conflate support for the war with support for a draft. It's the most blatant kind of dishonesty, but he believes the American people are dim enough to believe it.
In the supremely unlikely event he passes a draft law and the President signs it, I assume the military won't bother to induct any draftees, except perhaps for the very tiny number of medical professionals or linguists who are randomly selected. There simply isn't a need, and we don't have the training facilities, materiel, and personnel to deal with a great influx of recruits. Unless required by law, the military is still in charge of who it hires and into what capacity; if the officers at MEPS simply decline to sign off on the paperwork for every draftee they see, that would sink the "draft" right quick, wouldn't it?.
Of course, the logistical and doctrinal details of a draft don't really matter, because Rangel doesn't intend for there to be a draft. He's trying to tie this lead draft balloon to the War on Terror so he can watch both sink.
To: markomalley
How about The Democratic Party National Service Act?
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11/19/2006 1:01:37 PM PST
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reg45
To: DManA
I'm pretty sure you misinterpreted my post. But thanks for checking up on me. I'm a rabid these-eighty-or-so-years-of-mystery-we're-given-are-our-own-so-hands-off kinda guy.
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To: staytrue
"There's no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft and members of Congress and the administration thought that their kids from their communities would be placed in harm's way," Democrat Socialist/Communist code words for "If we had more boys that didn't want to be there we could foment fraggings, strikes and revolts."
"Our mislead soldiers would throw down their weapons and leave the battle just as the Czar's troops did in 1917."
"Our Socialist utopia would be at hand and I would be the most powerful man in the world."
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posted on
11/19/2006 1:02:09 PM PST
by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: higgmeister
#258. Exactly Spot On Interpretation!!!!
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posted on
11/19/2006 1:04:34 PM PST
by
Defender2
(Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
To: Sacajaweau
Charlies argument over not having the draft is that it causes a higher portion of blacks and poor to join the military.
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posted on
11/19/2006 1:06:28 PM PST
by
mware
(By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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