Possible Iraq Deployments Would Stretch Reserve Force

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/04/AR2006110401160.html

Leaders Express Concern Over Troop Rotation Plans

By Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 5, 2006; Page A01

The Army's National Guard and Reserve are bracing for possible new and accelerated call-ups, spurred by high demand for U.S. troops in Iraq, that leaders caution could undermine the citizen-soldier force as it struggles to rebuild.

Two Army National Guard combat brigades with about 7,000 troops have been identified recently in classified rotational plans for possible special deployment to Iraq, according to senior Army and Pentagon officials, who asked that the specific units not be named. One brigade could be diverted to Iraq next year from another assignment, and the other could be sent there in 2008, a year ahead of schedule.

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1. Time for Young Republicans to step up and go fight.

Everyone who is for this war needs to go NOW to relieve our fighting men. Some of them are on their FOURTH tour of duty in Iraq.

It's unconscionable for Young Republicans to sit back in their dorm rooms or in the board rooms while others fight and die for their ideals, the ideals of the Young Republicans. The age limit is now 42. Put up or shut up, Republicans.

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2. I think there will be a draft

enacted before January, regardless of the election outcome.