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U.S. Representative Frank LoBiondo has painted himself as a moderate. Our mission is to educate the public about his arch conservative voting record and to unseat him in 2006. Our website can be found at www.cpr4nj.org.

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Citizens for Progressive Representation (CPR) is a nonprofit grassroots organization, founded in New Jersey, with a mission to bring truth to politics, to remove targeted incumbents from office, and to elect progressive and socially responsible candidates. Our website is located at www.cpr4nj.org.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Draft would focus public's attention

Regarding Michael Goodwin's Dec. 4 column, “Rangel's reasons are wrong — but draft's a good idea”: There's much to be said for compulsory national service of some kind for the able-bodied young. But advocates like Rep. Charles Rangel and Goodwin, who urge the restoration of the military draft, tend to do so for reasons that fall short of the most compelling one. The one compelling reason for reinstituting the military draft is that it would concentrate national attention on the glib posturings of our war-mongering leaders with a steelier eye than is now brought to bear on them. If every family in the country were compelled to provide cannon fodder for frivolous adventuring, our elected leaders might think longer before lighting the cannon's fuse. Dan MacNeice, Cologne - Atlantic City Press, December 13, 2006

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