I'm mostly away from my computer today so I won't be able to do this one adequate justice, but... I heard on the Al Franken Show this AM a story about how the US military only has about 120 surgeons total availabable for Iraq. Due to the incredible shortage of medical personnel, Selective Service (ie. the US military draft organization) is preparing something I think they called A Rapid Conscription plan to draft medical personnel.
The connection I'm on is so slow that its limiting
the on-line research I can do re: this story severely. I can't even get to the AirAmerica Blogs to find out the name of the the guest who talked about it.
According to this JohnKerry.com blog entry there's a NYT article detailing this and maybe its all old hat to y'all but it was new to me, so I'm posting it again.
http://blog.johnkerry.com/rapidresponse/archives/003558.html
Here's a DK entry about some of this stuff:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/31/124056/93
Sorry to blog (inadequately) and run, but I thought the story was worth discussion.
JamBoi