Posted on 02/17/2013 11:15:47 AM PST by traumer
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) wants to bring back the military draft and require women to register for the Selective Service. On Friday, Rangel reintroduced the so-called “draft bill,” known officially as “The National Universal Service Act” (H.R. 747), and “The All American Selective Service Act” (H.R. 748), which would require all women between 18 and 25 to register.
"Now that women can serve in combat they should register for the Selective Service alongside their male counterparts," Rangel said in a statement. "Reinstating the draft and requiring women to register for the Selective Service would compel the American public to have a stake in the wars we fight as a nation. We must question why and how we go to war, and who decides to send our men and women into harm's way." Rangel said if America’s young women were forced to fight, citizens would be more reticent to go to war.
"I served in Korea, and understand that sometimes war is inevitable," said Rangel. "However military engagement should be our last resort. If we must go to war, every American should be compelled to stop and think twice about whether it is worth sending our brothers and sisters, and sons and daughters to fight."
Rangel has been a longstanding proponent of bring back the draft. "Currently less than one percent of America's population is unfairly shouldering the burden of war," he explained.
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What does he care? His fat @ss is sitting in some beach chair asleep.
Your idea would be extremely costly just to prove a point. A draft is a terrible idea unless necessary. You get a bunch of substandard troops that don’t want to be there. Women can’t compete and many will get pregnant on purpose.
Ok...you ready for the rest of the puzzle pieces?
Note the name proposed: National Universal Service
Does the phrase Universal Service sound even remotely familiar to something from 0bama’s first term? Here, does this help?
H.R.5741 - Universal National Service Act
To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5741/show
I went looking for the current proposal text and it isn’t available ...yet. http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/747/cosponsors
But if I recall correctly the last time included a civilian style “draft” as well as a military component. This isn’t anything new as another Freeper pointed out. Rangel has proposed this more than several times, each time though the new incarnation is more sinister than the last.
What did 0bama say about a civilian force just as well trained/armed etc. as our military? What do you think all those guns and bullet purchases are for?
Let’s not forget about our wonderful Illegal Immigrants.
Equality for all!
If they want to stay in the U.S. then they should be made to serve in our military to gain citizenship. Let’s see how many would stay!
FUCR - it’s to do away with the military and raise State Militia’s
Rangel draft because he is an antiwar commie. He once said that if people were drafted there would be more people to protest against the war. At the time it was Gulf War 2. An all voluntary military means there are far fewer disgruntled service members and families. Most are proud to serve.
In other words, Rangel wants the draft to weaken the military. He is a commie like the rest of them.
Wasn't the cry from the left before the all volunteer military that blacks were unfairly shouldering the burden of war?
The more things change the more the Commies remain the same.
Doesn’t Rangle do this every session?
(Or did someone already answer my question below?)
Because he's over 35 and ineligible. He doesn't care.
Ping! #23
It is a citizen’s duty to defend her country. If you get to vote, then you also get the right to take a bullet in the head. The fact that you might elect a stupid s**t, like Obama, could wind up costing you your life. That blood on the walls in Benghazi.....was that male American blood or female American blood? Do most American women even care about dead American Soldiers?
“Rangel draft because he is an antiwar commie. He once said that if people were drafted there would be more people to protest against the war. At the time it was Gulf War 2. An all voluntary military means there are far fewer disgruntled service members and families. Most are proud to serve.”
I believe he is a commie. I believe he is anti-war. But this statement, here I almost completely agree with. Men were proud to serve in WWII despite being drafted.
Remember, he perceives the world through the prism of Vietnam’s antiwar movement. It is a tool to weaken the military. It all works like rust. It just eats away until it gets too weak to support itself.
Remember, he perceives the world through the prism of Vietnam’s antiwar movement. It is a tool to weaken the military. It all works like rust. It just eats away until it gets too weak to support itself.
Thats the thing, the Vietnam anti-war movement worked. His logic I believe is well placed. If the pain of a war is universally felt by the public, would it still be pushed? While there is anti-war movements for every war. I am a veteran, and I felt I was well paid by the military. When we are discussion such major conflicts (Gulf Wars), I just wonder how different the discussion would be, if it was known that they would have to call americans from the inactive reserve. I don’t want soft diplomacy like we are currently seeing, but if the draft was part of the calculation of war planning in this country, I wonder if it would bring more power back to us.
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