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Obama's civilian defense force, that is ‘as well funded as the militaryDoes anyone know if a state controlled militia is legal under the constitution without succession?I did a search and found nothing. This is an offshoot of another thread, "Rep calls Obama a Marxists".

To me, Bush's speech last night was not as enthralling as his speech before the joint session of Congress. It seemed to me that it was an eloquent summary of everything he had been saying since that wonderful speech on Capital Hill, but not much else. Except for one thing, and it really made me sit up and take notice. Here's the quote: We will ask state and local officials to create a new modern civil defense service, similar to local volunteer fire departments, to respond to local emergencies when the manpower of governments is stretched thin. I sat up ...

Post-Saddam Iraq now has 116,000 in uniform SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Tuesday, November 11, 2003 The number of Iraqi military and security forces now totals 116,000. As of Oct. 31, Iraqi nationals comprise the second largest contingent in that country, according to a Defense Department report. The United States leads with 131,000 troops, followed by Iraq with 116,000. This marked a significant increase in the growth of the Iraqi troop level over the last two months. On Sept. 10, Iraqi forces totaled 62,000 police, military and security forces, Middle East Newsline reported. The report said the Iraqi Border Police has...