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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Also, only liars say that the Administration blames Saddam for 9/11. Nothing I've seen in the thread so far disputes that, especially without cites.
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The president made that association in his State of the Union address. Then why did we attack Iraq? Oh. President did not take back that Saddam / bin Laden alliance accusation until long after Baghdad fell. Meanwhile Cheney kept insisting Saddam was complicit in 11 September. It was a rare time the President and Vice President publicly said different.
UT, you deny what Richard Clarke wrote in his book?
US military was not meeting recruiting quotas. So they increased number of recruiters and lowered standards. That change has been widely reported. If the army's basic (not advanced) algebra is too difficult, then the kid will need remedial math in a junior college. How did he even get out of high school? It is a growing problem cited recently in the New York Times on 2 September 2006:
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At 2-Year Colleges, Students Eager but Unready
Because he had no trouble balancing his checkbook, he took himself for a math wiz. But he could barely remember the Pythagorean theorem and had trouble applying sine, cosine and tangent to figure out angles on the geometry questions.
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Sines, cosines, and Pythagorean theorem are not advanced math. It is basic (eigth grade) math. The army was not asking him to solve multiple equations of multiple variables. If rejected for math, then he does not have what should be miminally necessary to graduate high school. He could have chosen infantry - no problem getting into today's army with lower standards. One need not even graduate high school. A machinist stays in green zones. That skill can remain selective. But the army's standards were lowered. The alternative was selective service.