Summary
Perhaps the biggest "big lie" of this vicious presidential campaign is that the Bush administration secretly plans to reinstate the military draft. The president confronted this conspiracy theory in the second debate. Yet it persists.
The left wants to conjure up the specter of conscription to equate Iraq with Vietnam. The issue has gained some traction because it is clear the U.S. Army is spread very thin by deployments in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere and needs to be rebuilt. But it does not follow a draft is necessary.See the full content of this document
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Draft Duplicity
In the 1991 Gulf war, the Army had 18 active combat divisions and 750,000 soldiers. There were 196,000 Marines. The U.S. could afford to send the equivalent of eight Army and two Marine divisions to execute Desert Storm. In all, more t...
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