Reply #43: They get sucked in. They are young. [View All]

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The No Child Left Behind Act, the Bush education plan, has a provision that gives recruiters more access to students than they ever used to have. The Department of Education made a fact-sheet for schools titled "Access to High School Students and Information on Students by Military Recruiters."
http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/10-2002/mrguidance.html

It says public and private schools who receive federal aid could jeopardize their funding if they don't give recruiters access to student names and ages and addresses and telephone numbers.
They draw these kids in with promises of full education and other benefits that don't accrue unless you give a lifetime to the service.

Besides, they had every reason to expect that our military would be used to pursue a rational strategy of peaceful,(I mean, peacekeeping) engagements in concert with the UN or NATO. Bush talked in the campaign like he was against this type of colonialistic expansionism. 'Nation-building' he called it. Even his core constituency is bewildered at the breadth of his involvment in this type of foreign interference.