Posted on 11/27/2006 5:13:00 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Hence hgis support for the draft. If even our volunteers are there voluntary, why shouldn't everyone be?
I want to make it abundantly clear: if there's anyone who believes that these youngsters want to fight, as the Pentagon and some generals have said, you can just forget about it. No young, bright individual wants to fight just because of a bonus and just because of educational benefits. And most all of them come from communitiies of very, very high unemployment. If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.
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Why should we care what this over-blown windbag says about anything? It takes up our valuable print space.
That's what I figured. Was he drafted, too? Anyway, military service hasn't seemed to hurt his career.
Most everyone was drafted until Nixon ended the draft in the early 70s.
What ticked me off is the son of Mike Wallace didn't call him on his statements about our volunteer warriors.
OB
You've got it, jan. Rangel's right, alright.
He's kinda got this one right, too:
If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would not be in Iraq.
I just must assume he left out one word...
If a young fella has an option of having a decent career or joining the army to fight in Iraq, you can bet your life that he would rather not be in Iraq.
Rangel simply neglected to mention the young fella bet his life for the option of having a decent career and a decent country in which to have said career. That part probably lays on the cutting room floor.
He was drafted AND a high school drop-out.
Rangel is seriously losing his feeble mind- the crud he's been comming up with lately are almost as assinine as Kerry's http://sacredscoop.com
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IIRC, he said he enlisted. He was a drop out that came back from Korea and went to law school. Prolly on the GI Bill.
WHO ARE THE RECRUITS?
THE DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF U.S. MILITARY ENLISTMENT, 2003–2005
He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City. He received a BS from the New York University School of Commerce and obtained a degree in Law from St. John's University in 1960.
Rangel is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
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served in the United States Army from 1948 to 1952, earning a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for his service in the Korean War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._Rangel
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No Joke.
JOHN KERRY's most recent cut at the U.S. Military was purposely aimed at the very Heroes who have always brought the Joy of Freedom to others 'round the world.
JOHN KERRY's 1st cut at the same Freedom-fighting U.S. Military during the Vietnam War brought:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
What Price Freedom..?
Just ask those who have already had it taken from them when ABANDONED by the Free.
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The Words
http://www.Freerepublic.com/~ALOHARONNIE
The Pictures
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm
The Heroism
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24361
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Actually SHARPTON was quite lucid when he called for a Draft resumption in a new time of war right after 9/11, that would again see Americans on TV burning down their own cities as in the 1960's.
Same-Same right now.
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-1st Major Battles for Freedom of the Vietnam War 1965-66
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
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Maybe it's true - look at Colin Powell, Wesley Clark, and Janis Karpinski. ;)
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Ooop's, make that RANGEL, not SHARPTON.
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I thought Charlie was a Marine.
Rep. Charles Rangel (New York)–Ways and Means Committee
By Allegra Moothart
10/26/06
Rep. Charles Rangel was born on June 11, 1930, in New York City.
Rangel resides in Harlem with his wife, Alma, a former social worker, whom he met at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom.
They have two children, Alicia and Steven.
He is a Roman Catholic.
His father physically abused his mother and left the family when Rangel was 6 years old.
His mother cleaned houses and worked in a factory.
He quit school at 16 and drifted from job to job before joining the Army.
Rangel served in the Army from 1948 to 1952 and was in an all-black artillery battalion during the Korean War.
He received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart for heroic action, including the rescue of 40 men from behind enemy lines.
He earned a bachelor of science degree from New York University in 1957 and graduated from St. John's University Law School in 1960.
He was elected to the 92nd Congress in 1970 and is serving his 18th term as a representative from the Harlem-based 15th Congressional District of New York.
He is a founding member and former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
His wife is a founding member of the Congressional Black Spouses Caucus.
He voted against the Iraq war resolution in 2002 and 2003.
He has been the ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee since 1997 and has the potential to become the first Ways and Means chairman from New York City since 1881.
Sources:
Almanac of American Politics 2006
Washington Post
New York Times
http://rangel.house.gov/bio.shtml
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/061026/26rangel.htm
I'll pass this on to my brother who was accepted at Exeter and Harvard but chose to vacation in Viet Nam instead.
There are those who become career politicians to avoid working a real job.
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