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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: TideGlider who wrote (588967)	7/8/2004 8:07:52 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Here's more pointers that a draft is in the works: Some lawmakers are seeking a permanent increase in the size of the military. But Pentagon personnel chief David Chu said defense officials can make better use of those in the service by reorganizing brigades, making sure uniformed personnel are not performing jobs civilians could do and temporarily increasing troops levels with stop-loss and other devices. "I really think you're wrong," Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., told Chu. Cole said the Pentagon is doing a superb job of managing it resources, but that "in the end, it does take people, and you are using people pretty hard right now." "At some point there's a limit in terms of personnel, and I think you're there, Cole said.

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