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...voted last fall to allow George Bush to use force against Iraq, only one had a child serving in the enlisted ranks of the military. Would Congress and the American public be so eager to wage war if everyone's son and daughter might be called to fight? Charles Rangel, the veteran Democratic Congressman from New York, doesn't think so. Complaining that the military's all-volunteer force has left the risks of combat largely to minorities and the poor, who are more likely to join the military for a better job, Rangel has joined with South Carolina Democratic...
...Rangel has been pitching his draft bill for weeks, to a chilly reception in Washington. The White House and most in Congress oppose a draft. The generals strongly back the all-volunteer force, arguing that it costs billions less to maintain than a conscripted army. Its soldiers are also more motivated "because they volunteered," says Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. On the eve of war, the Pentagon "is horrified at Mr. Rangel's suggestion," says a senior Defense official, and has rolled out pages of statistics to try to debunk Rangel's claim that minorities and the poor bear the risks...
...Monday, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., came to Harvard to test an idea he thought we should find scary: if poor people are to be sent abroad and killed, everybody should have to—even Harvard students. Rangel claims he was surprised by how little direct opposition his proposal met with. What he didn’t understand is that we still don’t get it. Rangel’s idea of a universal draft is interesting and vaguely threatening, but most of us still have to jump on an elliptical for twenty minutes...
...Rangel said citizens should not have to resort to the military as a means of advancement...
...Gerard McGeary ’04, president of the Harvard College Democrats, said yesterday he personally agrees with Rangel that war must be approached with caution...