Also thanks to Rumsfeld...

Army recruiters are so desperate to fill their quotas that they've resorted to lying to high school kids. ABC caught a batch of them even telling teenagers that the Iraq War was over with.

"Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?" one student asks a recruiter.

"No, we're bringing people back," he replies.

"We're not at war. War ended a long time ago," another recruiter says.

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ABC News found one recruiter who even claimed if you didn't like the Army, you could just quit.

"It's called a 'Failure to Adapt' discharge," the recruiter said. "It's an entry-level discharge so it won't affect anything on your record. It'll just be like it never happened."

This is beyond wrong. Somehow, I'm not really surprised that things like this are beginning to pop up, given what's going on in Iraq and how shrub's people have been anally raping servicemen for yeaers now over the war, what with extended tours of duty, recalls to service, and benefit cancellations abounding. At this point, the only way I could see anyone actually wanting to join the service is if they were living in absolute fucking poverty and had no other chance to make their life better. But, of course, the recruiters still have to fill their levies...

Actually, while we're on the topic, I'd like to add that I can understand how that amazingly stupid comment of John Kerry's actually came out of his mouth. It has to do with the well-documented habits of military recruiters focusing on students with underprivileged backgrounds and poor grades. Statistically, they're just more likely to join. I'm not saying Kerry's comment wasn't unbelievably fucking dumb (politically), but I can see where it came from. Thoughts, anyone?