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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
This is doubletalk. I haven't researched the number, but a great many volunteered specifically for duty in Afghanistan and Iraq after war had already begun. The idea that they are volunteering for some kind of peace corps mission and then being duped into killing civilians discredits their intelligence and their sacrifice.
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The U.S. military is looking for a few good men and women — or a few thousand.
According to the May 16 issue of Newsweek, the Army continues to fall behind its enlistment quotas, and missed its April goal by 42 percent,
recruiting only 3,821 of the 6,600 sought. Although recruitment was up from September through January, this is the third month in a row that the Army has failed to meet its goals.
Well, do the research next time before you make such a blatant error in your assumptions.
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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
Someone want to try for a real solution? Take all the time you want. You won't find one that works, and you won't hear your Dem leaders offering one that works, because the one that works is currently being implemented by none other than GW.
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Really? Do you suppose the families of those killed in the London subway bombing attacks would feel that GW's "plan" is working? If its working so great, how come we continue to send troops over there to fight and die? If its working so great, how come we still get treated to those little chance of terrorist attack barometers like the temperature predictions in the weather forecast? If what we've current got going on is "working", I'd hate to see "not working."