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Jenson71
01-27-2006, 12:24 PM
Hi, I'm writing an article for my paper about the possibility or impossibility of a military draft.

I would like sources and input. I also plan on talking to a congressman and one of the army guys that work at the Army recruitment center here.
Bootlegged
01-27-2006, 12:46 PM
They don't draft gays...don't worry 'bout it.
CRONUS
01-27-2006, 03:41 PM
Right off the bat, nothing is an impossibility. You probably should modify your paper to probability versus improbability.
Jenson71
01-27-2006, 05:08 PM
Right off the bat, nothing is an impossibility. You probably should modify your paper to probability versus improbability.

Good idea.
'Hamas' Jenkins
01-29-2006, 01:02 AM
Look at SR 89 and a House resolution introduced a couple of years ago by Charles Rangel to reinstate the draft, because he felt the current volunteer system disproportionately forced the underprivileged, mainly blacks, to join.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/07/rangel.draft/

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny15_rangel/CBRStatementDraft05262005.html
patteeu
01-29-2006, 02:58 PM
Look at SR 89 and a House resolution introduced a couple of years ago by Charles Rangel to reinstate the draft, because he felt the current volunteer system disproportionately forced the underprivileged, mainly blacks, to join.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/07/rangel.draft/

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny15_rangel/CBRStatementDraft05262005.html

You should have said "disingenuously introduced" since Rangel didn't even vote in favor of his own bill. IMO, the bill was nothing more than an attempt to scare people into thinking that the Bush administration was on the verge of restarting the draft.
'Hamas' Jenkins
01-29-2006, 03:31 PM
You should have said "disingenuously introduced" since Rangel didn't even vote in favor of his own bill. IMO, the bill was nothing more than an attempt to scare people into thinking that the Bush administration was on the verge of restarting the draft.

It wasn't a partisan stab, it was a racial one. Do you really think that idea would have flown once the media knew it was introduced by a Democrat?