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2006-10-25 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Bobby 2006-10-25 06:15|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A number of people I've spoken with recently have mentioned that their relatives in the Armed Forces have been notified to prepare to go to Iraq or elsewhere around year-end. I've no idea if this is a normal rotation of forces thingy or (hopefully) if something interesting is in the wind.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-25 07:47|| 2006-10-25 07:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Shhhhh. Or lotp will have to ice you in the O-Club. OpSec is Job 1. Lol.

Posted by .com 2006-10-25 09:36|| 2006-10-25 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Whoops! My apologies! Not that the people I talk to face to face are important enough in the military to tell me anything important, but you're right.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-25 12:35|| 2006-10-25 12:35|| Front Page Top

#4 There has been a lot of Reg.USA chatter on internet about needing more boots on the ground and a clean-house of existing ISF and starting over. I just can't see any of our pols (including W) upping the ante by more than a few thousand. The chatter I see is talking about 2-3 hundred-thousand more!! In other words, clean house, take over national security and start retraining now. But not before the elections. I say leave it for Hillary to clean up.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2006-10-25 14:21|| 2006-10-25 14:21|| Front Page Top

#5 The only chance to take larger amounts of troops in was initially. That's gone now. American public won't go for it. The military can't do it without a draft. And everyone's afraid to mention that word. Increases, in a big way, aren't going to happen. For those of you not around then, you are reliving the atmosphere (in a very mild form) in early spring 1968.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-10-25 19:01|| 2006-10-25 19:01|| Front Page Top

#6 I doubt a draft will mesh well with our professional army now.

Posted by lotp 2006-10-25 19:13|| 2006-10-25 19:13|| Front Page Top

#7 The military can't do it without a draft. And everyone's afraid to mention that word. Increases, in a big way, aren't going to happen

That's what I like about Rantburg. It's like CNN - there's always some former general in the studio giving us analysis.

Posted by Pappy 2006-10-25 20:30|| 2006-10-25 20:30|| Front Page Top

#8 We can double the size of the military, WITHOUT a draft! Was anyone posting about needing a draft alive during the 1980s and early 1990s? We had TWICE as many troops then as now, without a draft. The biggest impediment to increasing the number of troops is the amount of money Congress would have to pony up for personnel pay and benefits - like $100 Billion. That is money that does not get spent on Demo feel-good social engineering or pork barrel. And there is no reason to raise taxes either, plenty of pork in the present budget to cut - like the flipping federal agency for TEA QUALITY.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-10-25 22:49|| 2006-10-25 22:49|| Front Page Top

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