{"id":7057,"date":"2009-01-15T18:17:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T23:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2009-01-15T18:20:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T23:20:12","slug":"bush-to-bring-back-the-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7057","title":{"rendered":"Bush to bring back the draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, wait it’s not President Bush, it’s greasy, tax evading, ethics violator DEMOCRAT<\/strong> Chuck Rangel (from The Hill<\/a>);<\/p>\n

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) likely will introduce his controversial legislation to reinstate the draft again this year, but he will wait until after the economic stimulus package is passed.<\/p>\n

Asked if he plans to introduce the legislation again in 2009, Rangel last week said, \u201cProbably \u2026 yes. I don\u2019t want to do anything this early to distract from the issue of the economic stimulus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rangel\u2019s military draft bill did create a distraction for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) soon after Democrats won control of Congress after the 2006 election.<\/p>\n

In the wake of that historic victory, Pelosi said publicly that she did not support the draft and that the Democratic leadership would not back Rangel\u2019s legislation. She also said Rangel\u2019s legislation was not about reinstating the draft but was instead \u201ca way to make a point\u201d about social inequality.<\/p>\n

Reintroducing the military draft bill, which would attract media attention, will be trickier for Rangel in 2009 than it was a couple years ago because the Ways and Means Committee chairman is now under investigation by the House ethics committee.<\/p>\n

Democratic leaders have given Rangel a leading role in helping craft the new economic stimulus bill despite an array of ethics allegations that have surfaced over the last several months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just for a timeline of the recent history of the draft, the last year of the draft was 1972 (I was 17) and it was ended by REPUBLICAN<\/strong> Richard Nixon. Draft registration was reinstituted in 1979 by DEMOCRAT <\/strong>Jimmy Carter in response to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan because Carter had made life in the volunteer Army so unattractive, there was no way he could have attracted enough manpower to an entirely volunteer force to fight off a foreign threat.<\/p>\n

Rangel tried to reanimate the draft to anger more Americans about the war against terror in 2003. Democrats then waived the failed draft bill as a bloody shirt to scare voters to vote against President Bush.<\/p>\n

If a draft had been in place in 2002 when members were making the decision on whether to support the war in Iraq, Rangel has said, Congress never would have approved the war resolution, because the pressure from constituents would have been too great.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s just naive. It implies that the decision to go to war was a purely political decision rather than a strategic choice. Congress is supposed to make hard choices and then pay the price for the success or fauilure of those decisions at the polls, not because of the pressure of phone calls and letters, for Pete’s sake.<\/p>\n

Personally, as a former leader in the military, I would hate to have a draft. it was tough enough making volunteers do their jobs, let alone someone who didn’t want to be there. Look at the derelicts in the IVAW who all volunteered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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