Getting Drafty In Here
Charles Rangel is an idiot. The problem is going to be that he is an idiot with power. For the life of me I can’t see how some of these people get so backwards in their thinking. Maybe Kerry should have said the stupid get stuck in congress.
First,Christmas at your house must be a riot. Sorry your kids been indoctrinated the way he has maybe he’ll come around once he starts paying some taxes that seems to be a great equalizer. Rangel is a complete idiot hes bringing up the draft to get attention no other reason it’ll never fly.
Posted by solorunner
11/20/2006 at 09:33 AM
Maybe we should begin planning on draft card burning in front of this schmoe’s office. He is an ignorant windbag. I also think there should be a waiver for him to be drafted first. Never mind age and affluence, he’d fit in well in the US Army or Marines.
I wonder if he will vote for his own bill this time around? Last time he didn’t.
If he was behind this idea to build a bigger, stronger army I could respect him for it. I think it’s the wrong approach, but I could understand his reasoning. But he isn’t. His idea is that if young guys are forced into the military, then their parents (those with political power) will be afraid to use them. This is utter crap. In Israel, everybody does at least one hitch in the service, and that country deploys troops whenever they need to. When the US had the draft we were involved in several wars on a scale far larger than what’s going on in Iraq. Somewhere in his logic is a terrible insult too, that some part of the population is just dropping babies to grow up as cannon fodder. It’s the same worldview as Kerry’s - stupid people staff the military / we wouldn’t have wars if the children of the elite had to serve. Bet those dumb folks live in Mississippi.
Charles Rangel - whoremonger, ooops, warmonger.
>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,<
Uh, how come no one is addressing this moron’s complete lie about the President apparently on his own invading Iraq (denying that Congress voted FOR IT) and ‘flimsy evidence’ implies that every single person in Congress who voted on OIF - is dumber than the President to fall for it.
Please tell me how people this damn stupid are elected to office? Yeah, I know, it is the msm focusing on the ‘draft’ word - not the lies, slander, and utter insanity of the whole statement.
Like I said with Senator John ‘stuck in Iraq’ Kerry - back in the 70s he railed on and on how the draft was unfair because the rich ‘avoided’ service and now they are screeding the same thing about the volunteer armed forces - typical liberal lies.
The draft is not a bad idea at this point. The military is stretched too thin at the moment. The world is a dangerous place and is unlikely to get any better any time soon. Reinstituting the draft would let our enemies know that we mean business. We need some boots on he ground in South Texas. What is wrong with having a draft at his point? It works for Israel and Switzerland.
I approve of my esteemed Democratic colleague’s stance on the draft, although for possibly a different set of reasons.
No doubt that Rangel is out there, w-a-y out there and his rationale that the draft would
have prevented the war in Iraq is abslolutely fruit loops. Our military does NOT need its ranks filled with malcontents, instead I’d suggest a national service program (mandatory?)
that would be like the WPA or the CCC from the depression days or a domestic Peace Corps
of sorts. Be a great way to work off those student loans and instill a sense of national pride. Just my $0.02.
With the national unemployment rate at 4.4%, why the hell do we need a massive jobs/education program for the youth in America who choose not to serve in the military? When you really think about it, that is exactly what Congressman Rangel is proposing...and I don’t need to reiterate who’s going to pay for it.
