Giuliani wants more troops in Afghanistan and expansion of the military. (Reuters)

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080103/pl_nm/usa_politics_giuliani_dc_2

WOLFEBORO, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday called for doubling U.S. combat troops in Afghanistan as part of a broader military expansion.

"One of the things we should do ... immediately, we should double the number of our troops, our American-led combat troops in Afghanistan," the former New York mayor said in a speech at a World War II museum less than a week before New Hampshire holds its nominating primary.

Giuliani, whose support has dipped nationally and in New Hampshire ahead of Tuesday's primary, said a troop surge would help find al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, rout a resurgent Taliban and help "stabilize the entire region."

Giuliani also called for a broader increase in the size of the U.S. military.

"We should increase the size of our military, right away. We should increase it by 10 new combat-ready brigades for the Army, that should be done now, and if more troops are necessary, we should do additional increases," he said.

He also said the Air Force should be bolstered with next generation fighter planes, that the Marines should number "at least 200,000" and the Navy should have at least 300 ships.

I actually forgot he was even in the race anymore :)

From the internets ---

"To recap: After receiving several deferments as a student, Giuliani applied for an occupational deferment as a law clerk, but his application was rejected. Giuliani appealed their decision, and asked the federal judge he was clerking for to petition the draft board for him. Which the judge did. When his deferment expired in 1970, Giuliani became susceptible to the draft. He received a high number and was never called. Giuliani “has made it clear that if he had been called up, he would have served,” says Katie Levinson, Giuliani’s spokesperson. He was opposed to the war in Vietnam on “strategic and tactical” grounds, she says. Asked to clarify what tactics Giuliani opposed, Levinson declined to offer specifics. “Voters will choose the next commander-in-chief based on their whole record, and we believe the mayor’s record speaks for itself.”"

The DRAFT??????

Rudy is still a repuke asshat. The rest of his ideas are strait from the reich.

or are you just going to keep troops on a perpetual tour of duty?

Idiot.