Back to their old tricks Bush Admin strong arming veterans and underreporting casualties

Earlier in 2004 it came out that the Bush Administration’s Department of Defense was telling vets who have already seen combat that if they didn’t reenlist in the military they would be reactivated and sent to Iraq. This was happening all across the country. The Bush Administration claimed that this was a misunderstanding on the part of military recruiters (in states all across the country – yeah, right!) and that it had been corrected. Now the GAO is reporting that the US may run out of guard and reserve troops for war on terrorism. Also has just come out that the US News outlets reported number of U.S. casualties are about 17,000 short of the true figure. 17,000 service members who have been medically evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan are absent from public Pentagon casualty reports commonly cited by newspapers. 17,000 more injured and evacuated military service members than the Pentagon has been telling us. Now we are getting reports of the Bush Administration’s Department of Defense again telling recently returned combat vets that if they didn’t reenlist in the military for three more years they would be reactivated and sent to Iraq . Also the Bush Administration has been putting together plans for renewal of the Military Draft, but they won’t announce that until after the election (if they win).