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tobius Donating Member (947 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-04 07:03 AM
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Does Hillary think the draft is a good idea?
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the all-volunteer military "raises serious questions in a democracy, both (about) how we define ourselves (and) what the real risks politically and militarily of taking action might be."

The all-volunteer force may make it “easy for decision-makers just to try to keep it out of sight and out of mind,” she said in a speech to the foreign policy think-tank the Brookings Institution in Washington.

Clinton, a member of the Senate Armed Service Committee, called for a vigorous election-year debate about the future size and composition of the U.S. armed forces.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4372246/

Clinton urged an increase in the size of the Army, supporting a proposal by Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) to expand the Army by 10,000 soldiers.
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patricia92243 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-26-04 07:36 AM
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1. I would think we would offer more incentatives for peole to join up and...
see if that would raise the 10,000 before we did anything drastic like reinstate the draft
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