Jeffrey Smith, formerly general counsel for the CIA (as his bio indicates) and a West Point classmate of Wesley Clark (as he mentions in the text), has an op-ed in today’s WaPo. He was general counsel for the CIA during the Clinton administration, by the way, not that the Post mentions that information.

Smith beats up the president for misleading the public about the case for war. He wants to increase funding for the military and increase the size of the armed forces–policies that I also favor, FWIW. I’m more skeptical about reinstating the draft, as Smith suggests. He says that we might need to raise taxes. So far, nothing remarkable. But how’s this for a closer? “Whether [Gen. Clark] runs or not, the views that he, Gen. Zinni and others have recently been expressing must be heeded. All of the men and women who now rest in national cemeteries demand it.” All of them agree with Clark, Zinni, and Smith? All of them want a draft? Was there a poll?