[lit-ideas] Re: serious question
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:25:54 -0700
> But hey, what are you going to do when you gotta meet the quotas and you
> can't get enough of the quality recruits? Maybe lower the bar?
ck: And raise the age limit. I heard about a friend's female friend who just
enlisted at age 42. Reminds one of the Reich's last desperate years.
Carol
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 9:58 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: serious question
> The US Army used to reject misfits, criminals, and sociopaths.
>
> But hey, what are you going to do when you gotta meet the quotas and you
> can't get enough of the quality recruits? Maybe lower the bar?
>
> And then you dump these soldiers into a hell hole where there is no
> strategy, no goal, not even a reason to be there. Give them lots of
> weapons, tell them the Arabs are Islamo-fascists (whatever that means),
> tell them they're Defending Democracy, and turn them loose.
>
> Watch the videos that these soldiers make. They're on the web. They just
> shoot at whatever moves.
>
> yrs,
> andreas
> www.andreas.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 2:50 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] serious question
>
>
>> Doesn't the military do a psych profile on recruits before admitting
>> them?
>>
>> I'm thinking of how three soldiers could take turns raping a 14 yr. old,
>> then set her on fire and shoot the rest of the family, including a 5 yr
>> old.
>> One soldier testifying said one of them said, "Hey, let's go kill some
>> Iraqi's."
>>
>> Julie Krueger
>>
>>
>
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