Posted on 07/08/2010 12:38:02 PM PDT by bjorn14
Rep. Charles Rangel yesterday again called for bringing back the national draft -- right at the Times Square recruiting station. For the third time since the Iraq War began, the Harlem Democrat announced his plans to introduce a bill requiring all Americans to serve in the armed forces. "If you love your country, be prepared to serve," said Rangel, a Korean War veteran. Congress should stop funding the war and, instead, use tax dollars to bring troops home, he said. Rangel, who this year was stripped of his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee, said the bill calls for men and women 18-42 to sign up for the draft during wartime. It will likely be introduced next week.
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“An Army of Slaves” can be the new slogan
Rangel should be in jail.
Back during the President Bush years I kept running into people claiming the Republicans were the ones wanting to reinstate the draft. One person (my daughter’s Judo teacher) even went so far as to say “you lie!” when I told him it was a Democrat. I brought him a copy of a news article showing it was the Dems. He never brought it up again.
Rangel does not support the military as a defense against foreign enemies.
He is either promoting a jobs program - or a civilian militia for future civil unrest.
Free countries don’t need slave armies.
This is so fraking obvious. Rangel wants to bring back those happy golden years of “Hell no, we won’t go!”
He wants to cripple the U.S. military by filling it with unwilling conscripts. He wants riots on campuses and mass demonstrations in the streets.
Also, he’s doubtlessly in that time warp common to all civil rights “heroes” and thinks that the Army of today is just like the Army of 1950.
B.S - he wants to see the military filled with resentful draftees that will cause problems and ruin efficiency. It kills him and the other liberals that we have the best military in the world - and it is all volunteer.
And because it is volunteer, it is made up of the FINEST in our society. People that would never follow obviously illegal orders, as might be issued some day the the fruit-bat currently in the White House!
And how exactly did the draft force rich kids to serve back when it was in force? Anyone who had money was able to sidestep the draft if he/she so chose.
Of course. Once he learned it was a Democrat the huge, burning issue was no longer of any importance.
This is so fraking obvious. Rangel wants to bring back those happy golden years of “Hell no, we won’t go!”
He wants to cripple the U.S. military by filling it with unwilling conscripts. He wants riots on campuses and mass demonstrations in the streets.
Also, he’s doubtlessly in that time warp common to all civil rights “heroes” and thinks that the Army of today is just like the Army of 1950.
Good luck to him. I’m sure his unimpeachable moral authority carries more weight now than ever.
I want integrity back into the justice system to punish tax cheat Rangel.
Obama said the same thing, in so many words:
http://www.therightperspective.org/2008/09/28/obama-calls-for-us-military-draft/
As long as either has an audience (family/media) that will put up with it, they'll keep doing it. He's getting paid quite a lot to keep telling the same story though. You'd think he'd come up with some new material.
exactly, some registered then dodged (clinton), others never even bothered to register with selective service (obama).
others took ballet lessons for deferment
Fat Bastard comes to mind here.
Btw, your children and grandchildren going to be exempt idiot?! Shut the hell up and go to hell already, kkthx. =.=
Democrat draft, back again.
Remember back in 2004 when the meme (all over MTV especially) was that Boosh wanted to bring back the DRAFT?
And then the Republicans exposed that the only legislation in the House and Senate to bring back the Draft was exclusively sponsored by Democrats? Democrats who refused to even vote on their own bill?
Let's not forget that Barney Frank is pushing big cuts in the military at the same time bonehead Rangel is yammering about a draft. The RATS can't even sing from the same sheet of music.
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