Stop-loss amounts to a back draft
Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) speaks about the thousands of men and woman who are serving in Iraq because of stop-loss, which amounts to a back door draft. The Pentagon has the legal right to extend a soldiers enlistment but the stop-loss is a direct result of poor planning of the war in Iraq, he says. (1:14)
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July 10, 2008
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