text: are the republicans still in denial when they say? there won't be another draft when their next presidential nominee john mccain has said over and over along with the top military analysts that many more american troops are needed in iraq and the lasted studies say that at least 400,000 troops will be needed. that will be something like 14 troops to every 1000 iraqis. that is just to get us up to par with the status quo and if it gets worse more will be needed........this is the only way the us can be effective and no i don't want a draft but obviously your president and future presidential hopeful do....so do you want to stay the course or cool off we really do not need more troops.  we need to take the handcuffs off the troops we have there.  since the insurgents are either foreign fighters or sunni baathists, we should be going thru the baathist areas, killing all males of fighting age.  done right we could be out of iraq in about 3 - 5 months.