Cameras Show Army Recruiters Misleading Students

[journalist3072]

Cameras Show Army Recruiters Misleading Students

Colonel Says Incidents Are the Exception, Not the Rule

(Nov. 3) — 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.


Rest of article here: http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/cameras-show-army-recruiters-misleading/20061103145309990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001

[pooja]

1. Yeah, we're not sending you to Iraq... your going to Iran

[LynnTheDem]

2. No actually, it is not an "exception".

2005:

Military Recruiters Lie About Dangers In Iraq
http://www.wlwt.com/news/4508233/detail.html

"They're trying to assure students they won't be sent overseas,"
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/224957_recruit19.html

"Military recruiters misled my son, and now he's dead."
http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/opin/pr_neid.html

Draft Resolution to End Military Recruitment Abuse
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/20_01/draf201.shtml

Recent scandals have shown how often military recruiters systematically mislead and lie to young people in order to meet their goals
http://www.afsc.org/iraq/news/2005/05/stop-military-recruitment-action-steps.htm

No, it isn't the "exception".

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. k&r

[Shipwack]

3. Don't any students read the newspaper? Watch TV?

Any high school student that believes the war is over and that no one is being sent to Iraq is too stupid to be allowed to leave the house alone, for fear they'll trade their car for a handful of magic beans.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Well stories about Iraq are usually on page 12

and they aren't showing us any bodies on TV.

[Roland99]

4. Col. Manning needs to be beaten to a pulp with a clue stick!! ARGH!!!

The whole point, asshat, is that the recruits are being TOLD it's easy to get out of the Army!!

[Toots]

5. Army recruiters lying to folks...no say it ain't so...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: The question should be do they ever tell the truth...

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. You know what is really sad about this?

There are no images from Iraq on the nightly news. No more embedded reporters, no combat scenes and never any bodies coming home. So it is easy to see how kids would belive this bullshit.

[JohnyCanuck]

9. They're probably telling them that inhaling depleted uranium dust

has been proven harmless too.

Depleted Uranium Weapons – an investigation
Angus Stickler, BBC, via Iraq Solidarity News (Al-Thawra)


A BBC investigation can reveal that the US and UK military have continued to use depleted uranium weapons despite warnings from scientists that it poses a potential long-term cancer risk to civilians.

A former senior scientist with the United Nations has told the BBC that studies showing that it was carcinogenic were suppressed from a seminal World Health Organisation report. The US has refused to fund major research and has been criticised for failing to cooperate with UN attempts to conduct a post conflict assessment in Iraq.
Angus Stickler reports:

When depleted uranium bullets are fired, the rounds can rip through the tank armour. And once inside - on contact with air they combust exploding into a 10,000 degrees centigrade ball of fire.

SNIP

"When you breathe in the dust the deeper it goes into the lung the more difficult it is to clear. The particles that dissolve pose a risk - part radioactive - and part from the chemical toxicity in the lung - and then later as that material diffuses into the rest of the body, and into the blood stream a potential risk at sites like the bone marrow for leukaemia, the lymphatic system and the kidney" according to Dr Baverstock.

you can listen to the report by clicking on the following link

http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m27968&hd=0&size=1&l=t

[TroubleMan]

10. Any recruit that believes that line is probably gonna need an ASVAB waiver.

LOL.