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Originally posted by ktsnake
Almost seems unfair. I guess it's more politically expedient than starting the draft back up. Even if they were to start the draft back up, it'd be around 6 months+ before they could deploy new troops.
Of course, if the draft were to start back up, Bush's fate would be sealed, so don't look for that to happen.
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Besides it makes economic sense too... besides the political cost of a draft, the cost of training 6000 troops for deployment would easily top 300Mil (basic training, specialized training, equipment, room and board)... the basic fromula used to be 50K per private...