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Active-duty soldiers will now serve 15 months in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of 12, an extension that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates portrayed as needed to maintain predictable troop levels, but it came as another painful sacrifice for the volunteer U.S. Army.
I'm not arguing that it shouldn't have been done, since it's a moot point. It's an Executive Branch privilidge and I'm not a whiny cnut like all you Pubbies. What it did spark was curiousity about a certain spin on the subject.
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A Republican U.S. senator is calling for a return of the military draft so the cost of the Iraq operation could be borne by people of all economic strata.
Speaking at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on post-occupation Iraq, Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said, "There's not an American ... that doesn't understand what we are engaged in today and what the prospects are for the future."
Speaking at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on post-occupation Iraq, Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said, "There's not an American ... that doesn't understand what we are engaged in today and what the prospects are for the future."
Certainly the sacrifice these families have had to make is heroic, and I don't know that we would all hold up that well.
Edited, Apr 12th 2007 10:29am by Atomicflea
Spoken like a man who hasn't had to keep me up during my evening commutes so I don't sandwich my car into a Humvee. After 10:30pm if I'm not dancing I fall asleep, and I sleep like a rock. I'm one of them-there morning folk.
