Despite congressional worries, DOD holds fast in denying need for draft

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=23174

Despite lawmakers’ concerns that military forces have been stressed “nearly to the breaking point” by rotations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration has no intention of bringing back the draft, senior Pentagon officials told House members Wednesday.

Reserve soldiers, in particular, have been pushed “nearly to the breaking point” by rotations to Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton, ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said in a Wednesday hearing about troop rotations.

The United States “has a moral duty to see our duty through in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Skelton said. At the same time, however, U.S. troops “are our most precious commodity … our sons and daughters. They are not pawns on a chessboard.”

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Curt Weldon(R-PA)

During Wednesday’s hearing, Weldon read from an e-mail he claimed “is being sent nationwide,” that he said insists that “Just after the 2004 presidential elections, as early as spring 2005, the administration quietly try to get … two bills introduced to reinstate the draft, while the public’s attention is on the elections.”

Weldon angrily called the e-mail “political posturing … to scare college students.”

[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. They'll never admit to pushing for the draft until AFTER the election....

...if we have elections.

[2Design]

3. exactly

[NMDemDist2]

2. the asst Chief of the Army today told Congress we are strecthed thin

and 39% of troops in Iraq are Guard/Reservists


CHENEY THOSE BASTARDS