Rudy Giuliani Would Raise Troop Levels higher Than Bush

Giuliani Backs Army Buildup Nearing 600K

JIM DAVENPORT  |  AP  |  May 5, 2007

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani on Saturday called for boosting the Army by another 35,000 troops, saying the nation must project strength and better handle the aftermath of war.

"President Bush has increased our military strength and further increases are planned, but we need to do more _ much more. We need a force that can both deter aggression and meet many challenges that may come our way," the former New York City mayor told a class of 438 cadets during a commencement speech at The Citadel, a public military college.

"I believe America needs at least 10 new combat brigades above the additions that are already proposed by President Bush and are already in the budget," Giuliani said.

Brigades typically have about 3,500 troops. The Army now has almost 512,000 troops, the limit set by Congress.

   Defense Secretary Robert Gates in January recommended to Bush that the Army over the next five years increase its active-duty soldiers by 65,000 to 547,000. Giuliani would raise that limit to 582,000.        Huffington Post

   Rudy Giuliani's plan would be the first step towards the ( D ) word, that word being  DRAFT. This would be the only way to increase troop strength to the levels that dear old Rudy would like to have and with so many of our current troops opting out of re-enlistment and many citizens not even thinking of joining because of this Iraq fiasco, the draft is it.

"The reality is that in this world today, there are people _ terrorists, Islamic, radical terrorists _ who are planning as we sit here at this graduation, who are planning to come here and kill us," Giuliani told them.

    Maybe when they get here, Giuliani will step in to save one of us, but, I doubt it. He'll be to busy hiding his sorry ass!

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Bush Approval Down to 28%

   According to the latest poll done by NEWSWEEK, George Bush is down to a 28% approval rating.  I didn't think that he was still up that high!

 

19. Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?

                        Current Total

Approve                    28%

Disapprove                64%

Don't Know                 8%

   Bush continues to drag the rest of the immoral Republicans down into the hole with him, which is just great if you are a Democrat, or anything else for that matter!

The last president to be this unpopular was Jimmy Carter who also scored a 28 percent approval in 1979. This remarkably low rating seems to be casting a dark shadow over the GOP’s chances for victory in ’08. The NEWSWEEK Poll finds each of the leading Democratic contenders beating the Republican frontrunners in head-to-head matchups.

     Check out this info from the poll:

When the NEWSWEEK Poll asked more than 1,000 adults on Wednesday and Thursday night (before and during the GOP debate) which president showed the greatest political courage—meaning being brave enough to make the right decisions for the country, even if it jeopardized his popularity —more respondents volunteered Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton (18 percent each) than any other president. Fourteen percent of adults named John F. Kennedy and 10 percent said Abraham Lincoln. Only four percent mentioned George W. Bush. (Then again, only five percent volunteered Franklin Roosevelt and only three percent said George Washington.)

A majority of Americans believe Bush is not politically courageous: 55 percent vs. 40 percent. And nearly two out of three Americans (62 percent) believe his recent actions in Iraq show he is “stubborn and unwilling to admit his mistakes,” compared to 30 percent who say Bush’s actions demonstrate that he is “willing to take political risks to do what’s right.”

     Out of the 28% who approve of Bush and the job that he is doing, I would venture to say that 20% of them are family members, 20% Fox News viewers, and the other 60% are GOP politicians and companies with their hands in the cookie jar!

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