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Sopranos Star Says Bush Should Reinstate Draft Jeff Dufour / The Hill | May 19 2006 The boss of North Jersey would no doubt have a different view on how to prosecute the war in Iraq. So too, it turns out, does the man who plays him on “The Sopranos.” Speaking Monday night from the National Museum of American History for the Washington premiere of the HBO documentary “Baghdad ER,” James Gandolfini said President Bush should “reinstate the draft, send 500,000 troops and finish it.” “I’d go,” he told a Hill source. “I’m too old and fat, but I’d drive a truck.” “The American people haven’t had to sacrifice anything,” he added. The often-gory film depicts the doctors of the 86th Combat Support Hospital treating real-life emergency trauma cases, such as soldiers who have been injured by bullets and bombs. Gandolfini said the film’s principals are having some problems with the way the film is being perceived. As The New York Times reported, Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey declined to attend the screening. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker and Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, the surgeon general of the Army, also backed out. But Paul Boyce, public-affairs specialist with the Army, said there were 36 soldiers at Monday’s event, and screenings are planned at 22 Army posts throughout the country. He said much of the top military brass “saw it weeks ago.” Given the graphic nature of the film, he said, “we’re very careful to advise viewer discretion for soldiers returning and family members. … We don’t think this will cause any additional situations for the people seeing it, but the U.S. Army has always been very aware and professional on issues like post-traumatic stress disorder.”
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