not to sideline the thread, but C4, if DoD wanted a draft, wouldn’t DoD say so?

USA can raise new units of volunteers.

You know good and well the pros and cons of a draft. The services don’t want draftees, the country is not prepared for one. yes yes yes, all Bush’s fault, go ahead and give us a thousand words on ”chickenhawk”.

But, Charlie Rangel ended up voting against his own proposal, didn’t he? After he’d gotten the platform he wanted to make the points he wanted to make?