[Peace-discuss] Recruiting News

[Ricky Baldwin]

We need a letter to the editor about this.  Many, many
more people read those than the posts on this
listserve.  It's also free.  I'd be happy to write
one,  but I only recently sent one in.

-Ricky

--- Chuck Minne <mincam2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> United States Army Recruits Pee Wee Herman for
> IraqWritten by Felix
> Pee Wee Herman is gladdened to go to IraqWashington
> (AP) –The United States army has proudly recruited
> Pee Wee Herman to beef up its flagging war effort in
> Iraq. 
> 
> “With overall recruitment efforts lagging, our armed
> forces recruiters are now signing up any kind of
> misfit, including drug addicts, known sex offenders
> and notorious perverts, Catholic priests, high
> school dropouts, chimpanzees and just plain wackos
> and psychos,” admitted Colonel Bull Buntline at a
> news conference at the Pentagon. “We have to scrape
> them off the street and hold their hands steady to
> get them to sign, and falsify all sorts of
> education, criminal and medical records. Thus, we’ve
> had to recruit Pee Wee Herman to bolster our efforts
> to obtain Iraqi oil to power American SUVs.” 
> 
> Parents and school counselors are advising potential
> recruits not to sign up, given the high rate of
> casualties in the illegal and immoral nature of the
> US wars, and other worries.
> 
> “The pay isn’t all that good, and veterans are
> facing perpetual cuts to their medical benefits and
> pensions once they return, if they ever do return,’
> warned one concerned father, who asked not to be
> identified. “Once you sign on the dotted line, the
> army may never let you go, too.”
> 
> For his part, Pee Wee Herman, who’s real name is
> Paul Reubens, is glad to serve his country, and to
> avoid doing more jail time.
> 
> “I can’t wait till I’m in those ravishing-looking
> battle fatigues and helmet, and ready to defend my
> country” said the film star. “And with a real gun!
> It is just absolutely so exciting. So fabulous. I
> really can’t wait to get going and meet all those
> nice young men, and Arabs too.”
> 
> The US army will fall far short of its full-year
> recruiting goal for the first time since 1999, and
> this raises big questions about the future of the
> military embroiled in its first protracted wars
> since switching from the draft to a volunteer force
> 32 years ago.
> 
> Many young people and their parents have grown more
> wary of Army service because of the likelihood of
> being dispatched on combat tours to Iraq or
> Afghanistan, opinion polls show. US troops are now
> dying at a rate of nine a day in Iraq, with 37
> wounded per day, more than two years after President
> Bush declared that major combat operations had
> ended. 
> 
> The army also admits that today's economy offers
> attractive alternatives to many high school and
> college graduates, like flipping burgers and running
> real estate and mutual fund scams.
> 
> The recruiting statistics appear to bear that out.
> Officials said Wednesday that although the army will
> not release its numbers until Friday, it fell about
> 99% short of its target of signing up 6,700 recruits
> in May. The gap would have been even wider but for
> the fact that the target was lowered by 11,350.
> There were also 56,897 cases of documented
> recruiting “improprieties” in all of 2004.
> 
> The seriousness of the situation was revealed when
> the army signed up one 21 year old in Ohio just five
> fours after he was released from a psychiatric
> hospital for murdering all the people in his
> apartment block.
> 
> “But those are the sort of people we need in Iraq,”
> added Buntline.
> 
> “The Holocaust proved to be the perfect weapon for
> deflecting criticism of Israel

For Alexander, the
> uniqueness of The Holocaust is ‘moral capital’; Jews
> must ‘claim sovereignty’ over this ‘valuable
> property.’” -- The Holocaust Industry by Norman
> Finkelstein .. 
> 
> “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the
> populace alarmed by menacing it with and endless
> series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H. L.
> Mencken 
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