Rangel.

This is coolbert:

I see the Congressman Charles Rangel has put his foot in his mouth again, and big time too.

Introduced a bill to reinstate the draft.

Make two year military service or an alternative mandatory for American youth.

Charles says his motivation for offering the bill is to make military service more equitable in this country.

Currently, according to Charles, minorities and poor rural whites make up the vast proportion of personnel manning the various military services.

Well, as regard to minorities, about 1/3 of the U.S. military is "minority". Amazingly, the American population is about 1/3 "minority". So the figures are about right on in this category.

Charles wants to see more youth from "richer" families serve in the military too. This is what his purported motivation is.

Strangely enough, Charles VOTED AGAINST HIS BILL WHEN IT WAS BROUGHT TO THE HOUSE FLOOR FOR A VOTE!!

Again, CHARLES VOTED AGAINST HIS OWN BILL!!??

He did not want the bill to pass in the first place, he was trying to make a point!!

A point that he should be ashamed to make in the first place.

Charles is of the opinion that "minorities" in particular are having to shoulder an unfair portion of the burden in Iraq with regard to casualties.

This is JUST PLAIN WRONG AGAIN!! Just as the accusations that blacks were forced to shoulder an unfair burden with regard to casualties in Vietnam was wrong too!!

As a matter of fact, the statistics from Iraq SEEM TO INDICATE THAT WHITE AMERICANS ARE SHOULDERING AN UNFAIR BURDEN WITH REGARD TO CASUALTIES!!

It is a fact that whites are more likely to enlist into combat arms MOS's [jobs] rather than the combat support [CS] and combat service support [CSS] MOS's than do blacks and other "minorities". Black soldiers for instance, are more likely to make a career of the military than whites and seek out MOS's that are safer from a career standpoint. Whites enlist with the idea of "testing oneself", getting away from mother for the first time in their life, and the sheer experience of a military tour.

The more intense and dangerous from a combat standpoint is the MOS, the more likely the soldier is TO BE WHITE!!

[analysis of the statistics from the Iraq war show only one "glaring" discrepancy. That whites from small counties SEEM to die at a greater rate than those from large metropolitan areas. Other than that, NO other "glaring' discrepencies seem to exist.]

This is just true.

True, and Congressman Rangel knows it to be true, but just will not admit it.

The man should be ashamed of himself. But, of course, he IS NOT!!

coolbert.