[internetworkers] Mandatory military service / government registration for ALL young Americans...
Steven Champeon
schampeo at hesketh.com
Wed Feb 25 01:10:27 EST 2004
on Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:58:09AM -0500, Steven Champeon wrote:
> on Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:21:19PM -0500, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
> > Somehow I missed hearing about this when it first came up,
> > but now that I've discovered it, all I can say is that I'm
> > absolutely floored. Mandatory military / government
> > service for everybody, male and female... no joke, this is
> > a bill that's floating around in Congress right now.
> >
> > http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.00163:
>
> Yeah, Rangel started talking about this back when Bush was making noise
> about going into Iraq. It's been a year since it was introduced. The
> idea was that maybe it would shock the Republicans into thinking more
> about the consequences of their policies if their children were at risk.
> Or something like that, anyway.
Here's more.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/07/rangel.draft/
http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=1283&catcode=11
http://www.talkleft.com/archives/001773.html
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