Scarborough: If We’d Had a Draft, U.S. Would Have Left Iraq in 2004

On Morning Joe Wednesday morning about the winding down of the Afghanistan war, MJ regular Mike Barnacle suggested the only thing that could replenish the U.S. military would be a draft, causing host Joe Scarborough to speculate that a draft would have shortened the previous two wars.

“In reading the multiple editorials, most of them coming down on the side that the president erred given the specific date for withdrawal, there’s very little mention about the fact that the American military is exhausted and nearly broken from constant redeployments to Afghanistan, as well as Iraq,” Barnacle argued. “The only thing that would solve that is something that will never happen, a draft.”

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“If we’d had a draft after we went to Iraq — we still would have gone to Iraq, because 75% of Americans believed that he had weapons of mass destruction, it was a year and a half after 9/11, we still would have gone — but when we found out they didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, our boys and girls would have been home in 2004. We wouldn’t have stayed there. We would have been out of Afghanistan in 2006, 2007 after we hunted down most of the terrorists.”

So now you know.

Watch the clip below, via MSNBC:

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