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Article: Charlie Rangel's message
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- Call & Post
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- November 23, 2006
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Longtime Congressman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., has stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy - and found himself largely abandoned even by his fellow Democrats in Congress - in the wake of his announced effort to reinstate the draft.
But it is entirely too easy to dismiss Rangel's concerns in the wake of the draft's unpopularity, without considering exactly what Rangel has to say.
In announcing on CBS' "Face the Nation" that he would be introducing in the upcoming session of Congress a bill to reinstate the draft, which has been suspended since 1973, Rangel - himself a veteran of the Korean War - said it was a way to more equitably share to sacrifices of warfare than is presently the case in ...