John McCain Slips in Provision to Draft Women in Defense Bill [With Updates]
Large Number of AZ Legislators Endorse Kelli Ward Over John McCain
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Posted on 05/13/2016 8:32:22 AM PDT by Da Bilge Troll
Pregnant, female, Navy SEALs was something many of us used to joke about as a way of exaggerating the absurd social engineering in the military. Yet, placing women in special operations and direct combat units has now become a reality under the Obama-led Pentagon. Sadly, not only have Republicans like John McCain refused to use their perches on the Armed Services Committees in the House and Senate to block this social engineering, they are now codifying it with a provision that could lead to a mandatory draft of all women. Earlier this week, I noted that the final House version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) contained a provision for the first time ever including young women in the requirement to register for Selective Service. However, this provision was only added because of a strategic mistake of the committee chairman who thought the members would vote down this absurdity. He was just trying to make a point. John McCain, on the other hand, who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, deliberately placed that provision in his chairman's mark of the NDAA, according to a Senate staffer.
I am further told by Senate staff that it is unlikely an amendment to strike this provision will even succeed on the floor of the Senate, which means a majority of that body now supports drafting women. The only hope to stop this is on the House floor. Have we gone mad as a society?
Any vestige of GOP opposition to Democrat social transformation is now gone. There is no floor. Battle lines that used to hold for decades are now plowed through by Democrats in a matter of one committee markup. A party that stands for nothing, indeed.
Update: A Summary of the NDAA from McCain's office defends the provision to include women in Selective Service as follows: "Because the Department of Defense has lifted the ban on women serving in ground combat units, the committee believes there is no further justification in limiting the duty to register under the Military Selective Service Act to men." Thus, McCain believes that because a few liberal social groups and Obama's politically appointed generals want to include women in combat on a voluntary basis, the Senate should therefore require all women to potentially register for the draft. And instead of debating this earth shattering social transformation publicly in a standalone bill, McCain decided to slip in the provision to a 1,000-page bill authorizing all defense programs.
Another disturbing provision in this bill establishes an independent National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service. The commission is tasked with, among other things, to "consider how to foster a sense of service and civic responsibility among the nation's youth, improve military recruiting, and increase the pool of qualified applicants for military service and their propensity to serve." While this provision sounds innocuous, some conservatives might be concerned that given McCain's long record of support for Americorps and other public service programs, he will use this program to compel young adults (now including women) into some sort of public service.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who sits on the Armed Services Committee, was so vehemently opposed to this provision that he voted against the underlying bill. In a statement provided to Conservative Review, the Texas senator noted that although the committee adopted 12 of his amendments related to an array of foreign policy and national security issues, he could not "in good conscience vote to draft our daughters into the military, sending them off to war and forcing them into combat." "I will continue my efforts to speak out against the effort to force America's daughter into combat," wrote the former presidential candidate in a statement.
Update: Sens. Mike Lee and Deb Fischer also voted against final passage. Sen. Lee called this provision "misguided and ill-advised" in a statement he released tonight. He also opposed the bill because it continues the program funding the Syrian rebels. "The bill authorizes the continuation of the Syria Train and Equip program, which was suspended last year after expending hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to train only four or five fighters and finance the purchase of weapons that were ultimately seized by Al Nusra, the Syrian Al Qaeda affiliate," wrote Lee. "I firmly believe that the American counter-ISIS strategy must be reconsidered from the top-down and that we should not fund failing programs."
Well, the feminazis have wanted REAL equality...now they shall have it.
...and the whining from them starts in...3...2...1...
Juan has been and always will be a screwball. Would he trade places in the POW camp with Meghan if he could?
The thing that gets me is that women of draft age, including conservative women, have no said a word against this. They have not organized. I have heard controlled media support from women about this.
If young American women are too stupid to stand up for themselves, ofcourse they are going to be abused by this Islamic leaning police state. Heck, they don’t even care if the government orders them to share the bathrooms and locker rooms with men, opening themselves and their children to a great risk of rape as a way of life.
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John McCain Slips in Provision to Draft Women in Defense Bill [With Updates]
Large Number of AZ Legislators Endorse Kelli Ward Over John McCain
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A Summary of the NDAA from McCain's office defends the provision to include women in Selective Service as follows: "Because the Department of Defense has lifted the ban on women serving in ground combat units, the committee believes there is no further justification in limiting the duty to register under the Military Selective Service Act to men."
Thus, McCain believes that because a few liberal social groups and Obama's politically appointed generals want to include women in combat on a voluntary basis, the Senate should therefore require all women to potentially register for the draft.
And instead of debating this earth shattering social transformation publicly in a standalone bill, McCain decided to slip in the provision to a 1,000-page bill authorizing all defense programs.
Just see the toilet and dress room madness!!!
Any further questions ???
Therefore, your first and second paragraphs contradict each other.
Leni
Because it meant you were so poor your mother couldn't afford boots and had to wear her husband's boots from the war.
Chalk up one more for the Communists. This fits right in with their goals that were read into the Congressional record, during the Cold War.
Is there even one single goal they haven’t accomplished with the help of the so called progressives?
Well there goes the term “Fox Hole”. Can’t use that any more.
I guess it was taken down cause I can’t find it, but there was a hilarious video of an episode of the Golden Girls and they dubbed over the dialogue with sound bites from the 2008 election.
John McCain was Estelle Getty, appropriate.
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Why not draft women, after all our troops each deserve 72
virgins too! /S
IMHO women’s role is to create life, not end it. No way they should be combat soldiers.
Equal means EQUAL. Why is this so difficult for some to understand? It is the Left which wants “true equality”. OK fine and I can support that 100%.
Years ago I used to hold open doors for women as a courtesy, allow them to get into an elevator first, light their cigarettes (back in the day), compliment them if they were deserving (new dress, hairdo, etc) and it was all rec’d with a thank you and the women were pleased to be treated in what I believed was a special way.
But some women (the ugly ones to be sure) weren’t getting this attention and resented the pretty women simply for being more attractive (this is a common and strictly a female trait). Suddenly it became “sexist’ to compliment a woman or to show them any preference or courtesy. Telling a woman she was beautiful became sexually harassing. It was all so much bullsh*t and because of it the manners I was raised to have are gone when it comes to women. I treat them and speak too them exactly as I would a man, never hold a door open for them or offer an courtesy I would not offer a man. Of course I have been criticized for this (by women). I am told I am “not sensitive to women”.
I don’t care. As I said, equal is equal and if it is not TOTAL equality then it is not in any way equal.
No one is advocating a return of the draft. This is all about registering and it makes perfect sense. Even if the combat for women thing is as I believe ridiculous on its face because woman simply lack the physical attributes to be able to effectively carry out the role of a combat soldier, they can be assigned to duties which free up men who than can go into combat.
There is NO reason in my view that every single American should not serve their country for at least 2 yrs. No exceptions, no deferments, no excuses...none.
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