Posted by
Tzimisce on Monday, November 20, 2006 10:41:56 AM
Wow Chuck Rangel (Liberal Representative Senator New York) wants to
reinstate the draft. This seems to be a shock to the main stream media,
college professors and various left wing activists around the US. Of
course, anyone paying attention has known that Rangel has been pushing
for a draft since the beginning of the Iraq Invasion.
Ostensibly this is so that the rich will be just as effected just as
much as the poor (who people like Chuck Rangel have told me poor people
have been forced into this position.) Of course going back a couple of
years we saw military personnel living on food stamps thanks to the
efforts of military hating Liberals Democrats like Rangel. But that
will be quickly forgotten.
The other reason he says he wants this is so that politicians will have
a stake in things when they make wars. Yeah, I'm so sure that now that
Chelsea Clinton is done flunking out of Oxford she'll be on the list of
as one of the first to be rounded up. Just as I'm sure that if I looked
back at the antiwar Rangel's response to every Clinton excursion around
the globe I'd find nothing but words of glowing support from the
Senator.
We all know the real reason behind this, Rangel said it himself last
week. He wants to create "a generation of Democratic control." It
doesn't take a genius to guess what he means. Vietnam (and the draft
during that war) is what arguably let to forty years of Democratic
control of Congress. Voters quickly forgot that it was JFK and LBJ
(Democratic presidents) that really got us deeply involved in that war.
Just as they forgot that it was the Democratic controlled congress who
took over ten years to end the draft. Just as they forgot that it was
Richard Nixon (Republican president) who pulled us out of Nam.
But Chuck doesn't care as long as he gets to keep his precious
chairmanship of the House weighs and means committee (the committee
where all the tax and spending bills begin). Be interesting to see if
Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich goes and talks to the new
chairman about his nonpartisan idea to cut off funding to troops in
Iraq (and all the newly drafted troops while they're at it). Not for
political games, but for the children.
Bush and other military leaders have said many times that we have
enough troops. It's liberals that have disagreed. Bush and other
military leaders have said many times that there is enough military
people on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's liberals who are
demanding more (right before they they start marching around with signs
stating the a running toll of the death count.) It's not hard to see
what the left is doing. They learned from Nam alright - they learned to
love their power, their control, their political games. But in the
meantime people are suffering and dying. But as long as Dems remain in
charge it's a worthy loss.
Rangel's latest version of the draft will put people from 18 to 42 into
political play. Thus I personally know a lot of people who are as
equally likely to be drafted as their of age kids. Now that the Dems
are in charge of the Congress watch for this draft idea to get a lot
more traction.
Peaceniks be proud. You're getting exactly what you voted for. Too bad none of you were paying attention.