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Rep. Rangel to Bring Back Draft; Invade Iran, North Korea,
Mars
Dateline Washington, DC - November 19, 2006
In sticking with their pledge to chart a new direction for
America, House Democrat Rep. Charles Rangel today voiced his
support for reinstating the draft. Rangel is expected to be
tapped for House Ways and Means Committee chair when control
shifts to the Democrats in January.
"There's no question in my mind that this president and this
administration would never have invaded Iraq...if we indeed
had a draft...and members of Congress and the administration
thought their kids from their communities would be placed in
harm's way," Rangel said, "Not necessarily my kids, however,
but I'm sure that some kids, from somewhere, would be drafted."
Rangel has been a proponant of the draft from as early as 2003,
when he proposed reinstating the draft to cover Americans
aged 18 to 26, including last year's proposal to require
registration for all Americans up to 42 years of age. These
measures were blocked by the Republican-led Congress.
In speaking from her home district of San Francisco, Speaker-elect
Nancy Pelosi added that this type of progressive mindset what
just a hint of what is to come in 2007.
"We're talking about raising the minimum wage, bringing common
sense back to Washington, and bringing credibility back to
politics. Did people really think that wasn't going to be
without a cost? If we're going to raise minimum wage, we're
going to make damn sure that lower income Americans can't shuck
their responsibility to die in Iraq for that extra $0.75 an
hour," Pelosi said.
In what would appear to be a slap in the face of many of the
Democrats strongest supporters, Rangel also went further to say
that "if we're going to challenge Iran, and challenge North
Korea and then, as some people have asked, to send more troops
to Iraq, we can't do that without a draft." He added, "further,
if we're going to take this war on terror to Mars, we'll need
even larger numbers of troops, and don't even get me started on
waging interstellar combat with the Galactinoids from Xanthalon
7. That is going to take a lot more troops."
Rangel and Pelosi weren't the only ones speaking about this
hot topic today, as Minority Whip-elect Trent Lott also voiced
his support for the draft.
"I agree with Rep. Rangel that one cannot support this war in
Iraq without supporting the draft," Lott said, "I don't quite
understand his point about my kids being in harm's way, however.
I mean, all my constituents are upper class and white, so their
kids will get deferrments. So why wouldn't I vote to send more
welfare negroes to Iraq?"
For WNN, this is Boodems Hooraybeer reporting.
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