Posted by zeugma on November 24, 2006, at 18:24:24
In reply to Re: draft coming soon, Rangel and Graham say, posted by Dinah on November 24, 2006, at 15:19:26
> Never going to happen.
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> Rangel's tried before hasn't he? And according to Democratic leadership, his new position doesn't give him any extra power to get it done.
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> Which, IMO, tells you what the democratic leadership thinks of the idea.
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> I can just hear the discussions. Let's see. We win control of the Congress, and institute a draft? How will that play in '08?>>Civil war in Iraq. Next comes civil war in Lebanon. And we are begging the Germans to go into the Afghan wilderness for us.
And we don't need a draft?
-z
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