ABC News: Army Recruiters Tell High School Kids War in Iraq is Long Over

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Army Recruiters Accused of Misleading Students to Get Them to Enlist

Nov. 3, 2006 — An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to enlist.

ABC News and New York affiliate WABC equipped students with hidden video cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

"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.

Last year, the Army suspended recruiting nationwide to retrain recruiters following hundreds of allegations of improprieties.

One Colorado student taped a recruiting session posing as a drug-addicted dropout.

"You mean I'm not going to get in trouble?" the student asked.

The recruiters told him no, and helped him cheat to sign up....

[bluestateguy]

1. We need a Truth in Recruiting law

A simple law that obligates these recruiters to tell young people the truth, and not to furnish kids with bad information.

Second, we need laws that mandate that recruiting offices be located in affluent, middle-class and poor neighborhoods in fair proportion to each state's economic demographics. Recruiting stations should not just be in poor neighborhoods.

[54anickel]

5. But it would be a waste of money to put them in affluent neighborhoods.

They wouldn't get any meaningful traffic. They'd have to come up with something to lure them in. They've got the money for a college education, travel, and excitement so that none of that will work. What would get a rich kid to voluntarily go into one if it was in his neighborhood? :shrug: Seems like a waste of real estate. Besides, they can go into the high schools and recruit or get contact info for students thanks to that No Child Left Behind BS (unless they and their parents are wise enough to opt out).

When I first read Kerry's supposed gaffe (before all of the brew-ha) I thought he was talking about that taboo subject of the Poverty Draft. Guess I gave him a bit too much credit on that one. I suppose that would be political suicide.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. GEE, then I wonder

what killed the 20-year old Marine we just buried here in Tallahassee?

[Freedom_from_Chains]

3. If there is one guy in the military that everybody hates,

it is the guy that recruited them.

[TahitiNut]

4. Technically, it's true. The war is over. Iraq is under occupation.

What's NOT over is the killing. It's a war crime. Each and every day, each and every death.