Ok bush voting assholes: Army recruitment figures still WAY down!

Bouncy Ball

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Mon Apr-25-05 09:55 AM
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Ok bush voting assholes: Army recruitment figures still WAY down!

Edited on Mon Apr-25-05 10:01 AM by Bouncy Ball

The Army reached only 2/3 of its recruiting goals for March and the Army Reserve only met HALF its recruiting goals for the same month. They haven't released figures for the NG yet, which tells me those suck, too.

(Disclaimer: don't ANSWER this post. We know you lurk here, but read the posting rules to see why you shouldn't POST here. All these questions are rhetorical. Go look up "rhetorical" if you don't know what it means. We already know the answers--you are cowardly assholes who can vote for a warmonger, but are too yellow to go fight it for him. So don't bother. But this still stands as an open invitation to go fight the war your dress-up pretend little "president" started on a country that never did anything to us and furthermore, couldn't do anything to us.)

So. What exactly is the major malfunction of bush voters? They can vote for a war-mongering asshole, but they can't go fight his nasty illegal war?

I know for a FACT that there are TONS of bush voters between the ages of 18 and 35 who are healthy enough to serve. So what the hell is their deal? Why are they hiding? What kind of excuses do they give? All four branches of the military are STARVING for bodies (especially the Army and Marines, take special note, fools) and yet.........crickets chirping.

Come on, look how desperate they're getting:

These guys bust their humps going out to schools, grand openings of malls, county fairs, spring festivals. And they're lonely. Because bush voters just can't be bothered, apparently. They love to talk about how they support bush's immoral war on Iraqis, but they have no actions to back up their words. (Slapping a magnet on your bumper hardly counts, as that only serves to make YOU feel better, and doesn't do a damn thing to actually help the troops in Iraq.)

Having to scour strip mall parking lots for kids with very few other options but the military. Geez.

Here's a recent article on the state of recruitment. Oh and bush voting women are not off the hook: they'll take you, too.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_recruit_040105,00.html

Cortnee Smith, a high school honors student, last year had her mind set on joining the National Guard. Her parents supported her. Friends in the Army told her what to expect. Smith took a military aptitude test and told school counselors and a recruiter she planned to join after graduation.

But last fall, her father quashed those plans. Michael Smith, himself a former National Guard recruiter, was called to duty last July and shipped to Iraq. What he saw there evidently persuaded him he didn't want his daughter going.

"He was like, 'No, no, don't go,'" said Smith, 17, now a senior at Shepard High School in southwest suburban Palos Heights. "'Tell the recruiter to stop contacting you.'"

Cortnee Smith is the face of an alarming problem for the military, as a sharp decline in recruitment has raised fears that the Pentagon could soon confront its biggest manpower crisis in two decades.