Letter to Congresscritter Nadiya Velazquez, Wmsbrg, Bklyn

Just sent this to my Congresswoman...

Could you just smack Charles Rangel across the back of the head during your next encounter, please? Does this fool really believe that he's going to quell this nation's inclination towards military action through mandatory enlistment?

Rangel told CNN last night, "I'm going to introduce legislation to have universal military service to let everyone have an opportunity to defend the free world against the threats coming to us [...] I'm talking about mandatory service."

"When you talk about a war, you're talking about ground troops, you're talking about enlisted people, and they don't come from the kids and members of Congress.

"I think, if we went home and found out that there were families concerned about their kids going off to war, there would be more cautiousness and a more willingness to work with the international community than to say, 'Our way or the highway.' "

Is this man a putz? Or did he just forget that 150,000 Americans, as young as 19, died in the jungles of Vietnam with "Congressoinal Approval?"

The corporations that control this country don't care who they kill so long as they can earn a dollar. And if that means plowing over Iraq so Bush can enact his pre-"election" strategy for global domination, further empowering his "oiligarchy," I suppose we concerned Americans can't do anything except bend over and take it.

But to force us to take up arms on behalf of these bastards and their vile agenda--you gotta wonder whose side Charles Rangel is on. God forbid this bill should be introduced, let alone enacted. In his foolish blindness of "good intent," Charles Rangel will see to the death of an entire generation of American youth.

Ms. Velazquez, since you're my rep and Mr. Rangel is not, could you please express these concerns to him on my behalf?

Thank you ever so much.