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Key Dhimmicrats oppose renewing military draft
Charlie's plan isn't going over so well.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading Democrats who soon will control the legislative agenda in the U.S. Congress rejected on Monday a colleague's call for reinstatement of the U.S. military draft. "I don't think we need it," Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan told reporters. He is set to chair the Senate Armed Services Committee when Democrats take over both houses of Congress from Republicans in January.

Congressional Republicans also have not expressed support. Rep. Duncan Hunter, the outgoing chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said the military has been meeting its recruitment goals. "You have a draft and you have a lot of people who don't want to serve ... to force them to come in and take the place of volunteers doesn't make a lot of sense."

The top two Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives also voiced their opposition to a plan being pushed by Rep. Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat, for drafting soldiers into the army for the first time since 1973. "We did not include that" in legislative plans for early next year, said Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, who will be House majority leader when the new Congress convenes in January.
"I just take this job and now I have to deal with this."
Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California noted her opposition to the draft in remarks to reporters.
Posted by: Steve White 2006-11-21
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