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Article: Assurances aside, some feel a draft.(OPINION)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 15, 2004
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Byline: Daniel Schorr
WASHINGTON -- Our two most recent presidents came of draft age during the Vietnam War, but managed to escape the draft. I mention this without animus as one called to service in the citizen's Army during World War II. And because the word "draft" is being heard anew, mainly from people who claim to be dead set against it.
Draft is a word that politicians hardly dare to speak, especially in an election year. When Rep. Charles Rangel (D) of New York introduced a conscription bill, the House leadership raced to sweep it away, bringing it up for a vote suddenly without hearings, without a debate, without anything. And in the end Mr. ...