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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (31474)	6/18/2004 7:30:01 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

<The draft won't be necessary because the Iraquis are going to be taking on a greater share of the security needs.> LOL. The Hoover Institution stated a few weeks ago that the Pentagon has launched a massive nationwide call-up of former service members a total of 118,000 Individual Ready Reserves (IRR). Since they are also in the process of hauling one Brigade out of South Korea to buttress the position in Iraq, the US is clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel to find more troops. The "Pull" on the IRR now is acknowledged in US military circles as being the last step before the drafting of civilians must begin. It is "debacle time"! If, in sheer desperation, the US military is now pulling on the Individual Ready Reserves (IRR), then the situation is very close indeed to being a real military debacle. After the IRR, there is nothing left! Militarily, there is nothing left except an emergency draft of young civilians pulled off the streets, subjected to three to six weeks of emergency training, and then sent off to Iraq. If the Iraqi resistance knows this (they almost certainly do, this knowledge is all over the internet), then all they have to do is to cause a sudden major uprising in Baghdad to land the US in BIG trouble.