Comments on: Rangel Will Push To Bring Back The Draft

NY Dem Says Politicians Would Be More Reluctant To Launch Wars If Loved Ones, Neighbors Were At Risk

[jwheel05]

If my son choose to go that is one thing, if he is forced thats another.Not all young men are mentally or emotionally set out to be able to handle war and are a liability to the units they serve.

[bushrocks1]

Would I send my son to this war? You might ask would I send him to WW II? Or Vietnam? Maybe you would distinguish those conflicts and whether you would send your son to fight in them. But that question is misdirected in a very important way: I can't command my son to go to war. He has to make that choice. So the better question would be: would I volunteer to fight in Iraq, WW II, Vietnam? Would I volunteer to fight in any war? Respond if drafted? I don%u2019t know. I'm not equivocating, only addressing that it is a hypothetical. As a hypothetical, I can say, sure I'd fight. But I have nightmares of battle (from my past life as a Jacobite). So how do I feel toward those who do volunteer? Impressed but maturely knowing that many things go into their decision. But I do strongly believe that a country who can't find those men is doomed. The fact that we can find them is one reason why I say there is no failure in Iraq. Objectively, I also believe it for other reasons. An attempt to establish democracy in the Middle East is a bold, brilliant, noble effort, facing a high chance of failure. That's why I greatly respect and admire those who have made the attempt--the Bush administration. They have been resolute, something I have not seen in my lifetime. They may not succeed, for reasons outside their control or fault: traitors on the home front, being a big one. But now those traitors have apparently occupied the high ground. Yet... we're still in Iraq. Why?... I'm waiting.

[jwheel05]

Bring back the draft, yea ok I would be doing the same thing those congress members would be doing sending my child abroad for education before they turn 18, and keeping them there for college until they turn 26. I am definately not pro-war, especially when at any given time the terror cells already in place in this country can strike regardless of what we are doing in IRAQ. Cut it out and send these soldiers home, not one I know of has come home with a glimmer of who they were. I thought it was made abundantly clear on election day that this war has gone on too long and too uncontrolled.

[radiob-2009]

j-whitman I am still waiting for a reply.

[frankly6]

Calling for a draft puts the proper frame on the debate by making the sacrifices of this war real for all Americans. It will call out the bumper sticker patriots to put up or shut up.

As it stands now Americans are not even willing to pay for this war much less go to war themselves or send their children. We're sending the children of the poor and borrowing the money from China.

[j-whitman]

I'll support a draft when Republicans will help pay for it,,, Good Night

[ronniehm]

Gotta go, but I'll give Rangel one crumb before I do. I'll support a draft if Brittney Spears goes first. Later.

[j-whitman]

Radio,, We've talked before on the comparisons, & we agree to a large extent. We can't call Bush Hitler,, but thier are similarities & many of them, many of the then Free Trading Republicans did actually divert resources from our troops to help Germany,, even Prescot Bush who lost 3 business under Trading With The Enemy Act... What is it they say,, 80% of our personalities are inhearited??

[frankly6]

bushrocks

"But I have nightmares of battle (from my past life as a Jacobite)."

[frankly6]

bushrocks

"But I have nightmares of battle (from my past life as a Jacobite). "