Senior Democrat renews call for military draft - Yahoo! News

Senior Democrat renews call for military draft - Yahoo! News: "Asked on CBS' 'Face the Nation' if he was still serious about the proposal for a universal draft he raised a couple of years ago, he said, 'You bet your life. Underscore serious.'

'If we're going to challenge
Iran and challenge
North Korea and then, as some people have asked, to send more troops to
Iraq, we can't do that without a draft,' he said.

Rangel, who opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq, also said he did not think the United States would have invaded Iraq if the children of members of Congress were sent to fight. He has said the U.S. fighting force is comprised disproportionately of people from low-income families and minorities.

'I don't see how anyone can support the war and not support the draft. I think to do so is hypocritical,' he said."