Someone should ask him now, Mr. Webb, do you support bringing back the draft, or were you wrong then? He was asked something along those lines yesterday on Meet the Press. MTP Transcript MR. RUSSERT: Let me ask one question on troops. When you were last on this program in 1985, you said that conscription, the draft, was good for the military, the country, and the individual. Would you vote to reinstate the draft? MR. WEBB: I don’t believe that this—right now, this country needs a draft. What I’ve done—one of the things I’ve done is I’ve proposed a 5 percent tax break for all people who serve honorably in the military. And one of the reasons that I have done that...
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