US to pull out most of National Guard

So, BOMBS?
Or more mercenaries?
Or new citizens from the Philippines, folks willing to risk death to get citizenship here, because they think this country still means something, rather than take their own land back from the colonial rulers who've exploited it all these years?
Or what?

I told you Bush is breaking the army.

No draft until after midterm elections.

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Guardsmen, who are recruited under the slogan two weeks a year and one weekend a month, report to their state governor, not to Washington, and many never expected to fight in foreign wars.

They are permitted to serve only two of their six years abroad. However, many are already on their second tour in Iraq, and there has been widespread concern at the strain being placed on the part-timers, who make up an unprecedented 65,000 of the 159,000 troops in Iraq and have suffered 318 fatalities.

Only 10,000 National Guardsmen served in Vietnam, where about 100 were killed.
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