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? asked in Politics & GovernmentGovernment · 1 decade ago

Democrats introduced draft legislation into Congress?

in 2003 and 2004. They are bills HR163 (Wrangle D-MI) and S89 (Hollings D-SC); labeled Universial Selective Service Act and call for both men and women to be eligible for the draft. Now that the DEMs are in control of Congress, how many of you Democrats will support your leaders in approving the draft? Don't believe it? Look the bills up and then proclaim your support for your new leaders.

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  • SNOOP
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    Here I am again.... I'm not a Democratic nor a Democrat follower. What you are siting is 2003/2004. bill. Did it come to be law...No.

    What I find a little odd is that you don't advocate the selective service. I have always believed most, not all, of our young people would benefit from serving our country in the military. Women and Men should have to register at their 18th birthday. NOT just our young men. You see anything wrong with that?

    I know you are a Vet.....so why not our young?

    Linda

  • 1 decade ago

    Well it is like this, when I was 17 and a half I had to sign up for the selective service by law. Now that women want to have such an involved role in the military then there is no halfway. It is either all or nothing to be fair about it. It is the next logical step for those who demand equality. You have to take the good with the bad. So if you are against it then write your Senators and Congressmen and women and tell them what you think.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    it sounds like the bill just wants to make men and women available for selective service... equality in selective service

    not start a draft...

    from what you've said?

    do you understand the difference?

    selective service is merely the mechanism from which a draft is used... you can change the way it works without starting a draft

    basically it's like the difference between working on a car and driving it... Dems want to change the way the car works, not start it up and drive it...

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Congressman Charles Rangel presented new legislations to reinstate the army draft which will comprise draftees as much as 40 two years of age. Rangel says "i do no longer assume my bill to bypass; my objective in introducing this legislations is for it to function a persevering with reminder that we've lost 2,200 of the ultimate, brightest and bravest individuals, have had hundreds extra maimed, and infinite Iraqi voters killed." "The Pentagon's very own researchers have pronounced that the army is broken and there is not any plan to repair it," Congressman Rangel suggested. "it is not any longer unusual for lively-accountability and Reserve instruments to make certain 2 and 3 deployments. Troops are spending a pair of third of the time on deployment, instead of a 5th of the time, as favourite, to competently relax, prepare and rebuild instruments. ”Our military is extra like a mercenary tension than a citizen military. it is ruled via women folk and adult males people who want an financial leg-up. Bonuses of as much as $40,000 and a promise of school training look very stable to somebody from an economically depressed city or rural community. yet, as activities unfold in Iran, Syria and North Korea and grow to be much extra risky, at what factor will the hazards outweigh the allure of money--even to the hungriest recruits?

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  • 1 decade ago

    I would. Our military enlisted folks is at an all time low. I think either the draft needs to be implemented or every man/women at the age of 19 must serve at least 2 years in the Military of their choice. Approx. out of that 35 % might stay in. This would help raise the numbers of people enlisted where it needs to be.

  • 1 decade ago

    The bills had no other purpose than to stir up trouble. They were working on scare tactics to reduce support for the war. What better way to scare people than drafting their daughters?

    As usual dems don't run on facts or strategy, they run on fear mongering.

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