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Originally posted by Tobra
Thanks, that made no sense before that explanation.
So when you say we should have a draft, are you being sarcastic or serious? Do you propose that because you think it would hasten our exit from Iraq or because you truly believe if we double troop levels it will hasten some semblance of peace in the area?
Good point about job descriptions Rearden
Todd, the radicals are well educated, upper-middle class types. Do I win a cookie?
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Draft? Dead serious. No one owns this war. Bush comes out to the podium over and over and over to scare the bejeezus out of us, and then says go about your lives as though no threat exists. he also leaves the borders and ports open as though no threat exists, but I digress.
To win in Iraq and Afghanistan we need a draft. We need hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the area to seal off borders, stop the flow of arms and terrorists into critical areas and root out and destroy terrorists and insurgents alike. We need 200 special ops teams to infiltrate and destroy camps and training grounds in any country we find them. We need to invest in regions to get people working. We need to get electricity and water running more than 3 hours a day within 3 months of starting the project.
we need a real energy policy that encourages high tech, puts people to work, and weans us off of foreign oil. Say we need an entire new infrastructure for fuel cell fill-up? Fine, that's 30,000 new, good payijng jobs putting that together. it's 50,000 jobs just developing it and then maintaining it, to say nothing of improving it. If I were in Government, I'd mandate that the entire system be designed and built using only U.S. labor and manufacturing.
yes, we need a draft because we need to remove the threat in the near term to forge a long term vision for this country.