Democrat Rangel: Bring back the draft

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Democrat Rangel: Bring back the draft
New York congressman says he'll introduce legislation to beef up number of U.S. troops

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., the incoming chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said he will introduce legislation to reinstate the military draft, claiming U.S. forces are inadequate to face possible threats by Iran, North Korea, as well as Iraq.

"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," Rangel said today on CBS' "Face the Nation" program.

"I don't see how anyone can support the war and not support the draft," he said. "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."

Rangel is a Korean War veteran who unsuccessfully sponsored legislation on conscription in the past. He said his proposal would be filed early next year.

Appearing on CBS with Rangel was Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who serves as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force Standby Reserve.

While Graham did not say a draft was the definitive way to go, he did leave open the possibility.

"I think we can do this with an all-voluntary service, all-voluntary Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy. And if we can't, then we'll look for some other option," Graham said.

Polls have shown about seven in 10 Americans oppose reinstatement of the draft, and military officials have said they don't expect to see its return.

Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress in June 2005 that "there isn't a chance in the world that the draft will be brought back."

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Top House Democrats to bar military draft plan

A reinstatement of the military draft, being pushed by a senior Democrat, will not be slated for consideration in the House of Representatives, the chamber's newly elected top leaders said on Monday.

"We did not include that" in legislative plans for early next year, said Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer (news, bio, voting record) of Maryland, who will be House majority leader when the new Congress convenes in January under Democratic control for the first time in 12 years.

New York Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel (news, bio, voting record), who is in line to chair the House Ways and Means Committee next year, has renewed his call for the draft, saying the war in
Iraq is being fought by American soldiers who disproportionately are from low-income families and minorities.

Over the weekend, Rangel said he would seek passage next year of the universal draft legislation he has long sought. "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," Rangel said on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California told reporters on Monday that she does not support reinstating the draft, which was suspended in 1973 near the end of the Vietnam War and replaced by the all-volunteer army.

As Ways and Means panel chairman, Rangel will have a significant role in U.S. tax and health-care policy. That post will not necessarily give Rangel an effective forum for pursuing his military draft legislation, Pelosi observed.

Instead, Pelosi said Rangel was trying to underscore that the U.S. war effort should be a "shared sacrifice" and his legislation was "a way to make that point."

Previewing next year's legislative agenda, Pelosi emphasized pocketbook issues, saying Democrats will try to ease the "middle-class squeeze."

"We want to take the country in a new direction, not just for privileged America," Pelosi said in a jab to
President George W. Bush's Republicans who had been in control of Congress.

Among Democrats' top priorities are increasing the minimum wage, expanding aid for college education and further lowering prescription drug costs for senior citizens.

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This seems to fit the style of Charlie Rangel and his agenda. Charlie Rangel has proven ties to the Workers World Party where he has been seen to speak at many of their rallies. The Workers World Party long ago progressed beyond being progressives. They are Stalinists. Their ideology calls for the destruction of the United States, the abolition of privately owned property, and the literal enslavement of the entire human race. The word "evil" barely does them justice.

The WWP sides with the horrific totalitarian regime in North Korea against the USA. From their eulogy for the communist dictator Kim Il Sung:

Comrade Kim Il Sung devoted his whole life to the Korean people's struggle for national self-determination and the international working-class struggle for socialist emancipation. With his leadership, the Korean people defeated the Japanese colonial occupation and soon after brought about the first defeat of the U.S. imperialist military machine.

The associated Troops Out Now sides with the Islamic insurgents killing our troops in Iraq:

It is time for the antiwar movement to acknowledge the absolute and unconditional right of the Iraqi people to resist the occupation of their country without passing judgment on their methods of resistance.

It other words, terrorist tactics and beheadings are a-okay with Charlie Rangel's pals, so long as the objective is to defeat America.

Charlie Rangel has also been associating himself with communist leaders such as Fidel Castro. Fidel has paid for Rangel and his family to go to Cuba a number of times. Charlie Rangel has also strongly supported the islamist terrorists while at the same time denegrating Christians and Jews.

Ramsey Clark and Lynne Stewart have also been seen at these rallies in support of the WWP. For those not familiar with who Lynne Stewart is she is the person that was recently sentenced to a wrist slap for helping an Islamic terrorist involved in the first attack on the World Trade Center to preside over his operations from behind bars.

Charlie Rangel is now leading the Ways and Means Committee:

Created in 1789, Ways and Means is the oldest standing Committee in Congress. Due to its broad jurisdiction on critical issues — involving economic policy, international trade, welfare, Social Security, Medicare and health care policy — the committee occupies a pivotal place in the House Committee system. In addition to legislating, the Committee exercises broad oversight authority in all these areas.

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WOW! - Maybe we are getting what we deserve. As a nation, we certainly don't deserve the blessings and favor of GOD. The nation has turned its back to GOD, and GOD'S Will Be Done. I blame myself and every other person who calls themselves a Christian.

We could have, should have, and we didn't for 50 years. So, we a reaping our just rewards. In fact, we should give thanks that GOD has given us much more than what we deserve.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Proverbs 15:6 NASB  Great wealth is in the house of the righteous, But trouble is in the income of the wicked.