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Originally posted by MattK
Critics including Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) have accused the Pentagon of engaging in a "backdoor draft" to compensate for manpower shortages in Iraq with wholesale mobilizations National Guard and Reserve units and other retention tactics.
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President Bush Sr. began an end force reduction and reformation of the military. This reduction and reformation was carried out throughout the Clinton Presidency. The military end strength was cut by approximately 1,000,000 personel and reformation included making the Reserves and National Guard an integral part of any major deployment of troops. Democrats as well Republican memebers of Congress approved the reduction and the inclusion of the Reserves and National Gaurd as being an intergral part of the Active Duty Military in case of a major deployment. It is a little late in the game to be whining about it now. I was against the reduction of Active Duty military personel.