Rep. Rangel Marks Iraq War Anniversary By Pushing For Women In Selective Service
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) posted a video [1] Friday marking the anniversary of when the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq and says that “everybody has to be eligible between 18 and a reasonable age” for Selective Service, including women.
“We’re now going through the 13th anniversary of the Iraq war,” Rangel says in the video. “Guess what? War has never been declared.”
“The tens of thousands of Americans have sacrificed their lives for political reasons – and yet – the Constitution requires the president and the Congress have to do this.
“That’s why it’s so important before these decisions are made, we have to make certain how much it’s going to cost, that national security really requires it, and the president has to have the Congress to vote for war," Rangel adds.
“That means everybody has to be eligible between 18 and a reasonable age. Men and women have to be prepared to serve – and if they’re not – Congress needs to respond and say, ‘why not?’”
Rangel has introduced bills to reinstate the draft [2] in every Congress since January of 2003.
According to his website, [2] Rangel’s Draft Act requires all men and women between the ages 18 to 25 to register for the Selective Service System and for the reinstatement of a lottery to draft them into the military whenever an authorization on the use of military force or declaration of war is in effect.
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