What's all this about a draft?

[dubeskin]

At dinner last night my mom was telling me something about a draft maybe happening again, and us moving to Canada if said draft happens. But I was reading here and noticed some people are calling it a bluff? Can someone give me the low down on all of this? Is all this election stuff getting to Bush's head?

[Kelvin Mace]

1. "Well, close the door!"

"Emily, they are talking about the MILITARY draft."

"Oh. Never mind."

[Kagemusha]

2. Oh are you in for a shock.

The person who has talked of renewing the draft is Representative Charles Rangel (D), incoming Chairman of the Ways and Means committee. He wants to spark a debate, scare people, make them think, on the grounds that if there was a draft with no exceptions, wars of choice would end VERY quickly. And if they don't, the pain will be shared more evenly.

A good many DU'ers are valiantly defending the idea as a badly needed means to wake up the American people. I view it as political suicide. Others may disagree.

[dubeskin]

3. Thanks, this helps a lot.

:)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. There's a lot of us who think it's political suicide here on DU.

[Warpy]

5. Rangel's playing rope-a-dope with suburbanites

who don't think the war can possibly come for their children and affect their lifestyles.

Of course, his support for it in Congress has doubled: from two to four.

This is accomplishing two things: waking up the apathetic and ensuring Stupid won't propose a draft. If a Democrat came up with it, he'll never do it.