Let it never be said that I'm so partisan and foolishly blind as to believe that the Democrats can do no wrong. Case in point: Rep. Charles Rangel, D-NY. Today, on CBS's Face the Nation, Rangel said that he would introduce legislation to re-instate the draft.

Ugh. I'm pretty sure that most Democrats don't want to reinstate the draft, so this legislation will most likely die in committee. But let's hear Rangel's reasoning for this:

There's no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft and members of Congress and the administration thought that their kids from their communities would be placed in harm's way.

Earth to Chuck Rangel! Members of Congress would never write legislation that would ever require their children to serve in the military. Members of Congress want other people's children to fight their wars for them! Of course they would write exemptions into any draft legislation that would allow their children to stay out of the military. During the Vietnam War, exemptions were granted for people who were in college or pursuing a graduate degree. Vice President Cheney certainly used up his share of deferments; he got five of them!

Not to mention that there would be six kinds of uproar about mandatory conscription into a war that 69% of Americans disapprove of. We drafted young men for Vietnam, and that went just swimmingly.

Rangel tried to re-introduce the draft in 2003, but military leaders were actually against it, saying that a volunteer army would be better than a conscripted one. His 2003 proposal died in the Republican-controlled House. Imagine what a tortorous death it will be in a Democratic House.