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To: tejek who wrote (226050)	3/25/2005 6:30:51 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1577864

Having said that, its well known in human psychology that when someone volunteers a piece of information inexplicably, the converse to that info is usually true. 1 - "Usually true" is an exaggeration. 2 - More importantly, in this case it wasn't inexplicable. The Dems have kept saying that Bush/the Republicans/"the neo-cons" are going to start up the draft. Now you get a report that talks about not-meeting recruitment goals. Its not like Bush and company just pulled the draft idea out of thin air in order to deny it. They had been accused of it. If you are accused of having certain plans, and you respond "No I don't plan to do that", it is not evidence that you do in fact plant to do what you are accused of. we have some very definite military commitments in the world and the growing possibility of a troop shortage due to poor recruitment and lagging reenlistments. You do the math. Missing recruitment targets aren't going to cause a draft to happen. To push through a draft we would have to have a need for a tremendous amount of extra soldiers. Increasing the army by 5% or something like that isn't significant enough. If we needed to double the army then maybe their would be a draft (but it would also take years to train and equip that many new soldiers if you were not cutting corners and giving them a lower standard of training and equipment then our current soldiers.) Tim