Solving the recruiting problem...
Mood:  mischievious
Topic: Political
I recently heard that recruiting numbers for the military were down over 40%. It seems we can't find people who are silly enough to go fight Dubya's war for him. I can't imagine why. The drop in enlistment led the miltary to stop recruiting for an entire day to "reassess" their methods. What? Promising recruits a million dollars, a condo, 3 day work weeks, a new car, and their choice of assignment isn't getting it done any more?
According to news reports there have been cases of military recruiters lieing to potential recruits. You know I was beginning to wonder why the entire Army wasn't based in Hawaii.

Anyway, the miltary is all in a bunch because no one wants to fight Dubya's war in Iraq so they figure it's time explore some new ideas. Well rest easy gang I have the solution to your problem.

It's simple. Do away with the age limit. Let anyone join. If you do that then all these patriots with "These colors don't run" bumper stickers on their pick-up trucks can join up. Based on all the "I support our troops" magnets I see on cars, I really believe that most of the people in said cars would join the army and head to Iraq in a heartbeat if they were simply allowed to enlist. See? Problem solved. I can't believe I am the only one who has thought of this.

You know that the age limit is all that is keeping every jingo spouting, war loving, gay hating, liberal bashing, gun toting member of the NRA out of the Army. Hell, you raise the age limit on enlistment and these guys and gals can solve two problems at once. They'll join up tomorrow and they'll bring their own guns. It's a win-win situation. The military gets their recruits, the taxpayers save money on weapon production.

Since they wanted the war so badly we should at least be decent enough to let them go fight it. We can let all the flag wavers and sticker bearers lead the charge into wherever it is we are attacking this week. All the military needs to do is raise that age limit and they'll have lines out the door tomorrow. I am assuming my Mom's husband and my in-laws would certainly join up. They were practically foaming at the mouth when this whole Iraq thing got under way. In fact one of them even said "Don't you just love times like this? It's so patriotic." Yes she actually said that.

Anyway, my point is simple. All these folks with the magnets and stickers want to make sure we know how much they support Dubya, our freedom, and the war. So let's make it easy for them. Loosen up the restrictions and let them sign up. They wanted this thing let them fight it.