P.S. Re: [Peace-discuss] Recruiting News

[Ricky Baldwin]

Of course, I mean we need letters on the general
topic, not the spoof.

-Ricky

--- Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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