Published November 21st, 2006
in US Legislative and Military.
In what can only be called an odd role-reversal, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), who will chair the House Ways and Means committee come January, said he would seek passage next year of universal draft legislation.
Rangel told CBS’ “Face the Nation” yesterday that “If we’re going to challenge Iran and challenge North Korea and then, as some people have asked, to send more troops to Iraq, we can’t do that without a draft”, adding that the war in Iraq is being fought by American soldiers who disproportionately are from low-income families and minorities and implying a desire to change that.
Published November 13th, 2006
in US Legislative, Military and Iraq.
The Democrats haven’t been sworn in yet as the new overlords of Capitol Hill, but the direction in which they want to take the country is already becoming clear. Several major Democrats spoke out today in favor of withdrawing troops from Iraq as soon as possible.
Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the incoming chairman of the Armed Services Committee, stated his desire to begin bringing US troops home in phases within four to six months. Joe Biden, the Delaware Senator and incoming chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, joined him in predicting that many Republicans would support such a resolution. Levin thinks that now is the time for Bush to tell the Iraqis that “the open-ended commitment is over.”
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