Reply #4: Do you remember MacNamara's Moron corps.?

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During the Vietnam War, the military intentionally selected mentally retarded soldiers to serve in the army and they died in disproportionately higher numbers than their counterparts. The information below and link provides information.

The main point is that they lowered the standards for enlistment ESPECIALLY in impoverished areas. So, I'm wondering, was there some plan for a cleansing of undesirables, American undesirables, with the Iraq War? Why pick people with psychological problems which can prove a threat to the safety of your own troops, or soldiers who belong to anti-social groups, such as the skinheads, unless you really don't care if they don't make it back?

Here is the info on the Moron Corps:

In 1966, McNamara initiated the "Moron Corps," as they were piteously nicknamed by other soldiers. Billed as a Great Society program, McNamara's Project 100,000 lowered military enlistment requirements to recruit 100,000 men per year with marginal minds and bodies. Recruiters swept through urban ghettos and southern hill country, taking some youths with I.Q.s below what is considered legally retarded.

In all, 354,000 volunteered for Project 100,000. The minimum passing score on the armed forces qualification test had been 31 out of 100. Under McNamara's Project 100,000, those who scored as low as 10 were taken if they lived in a designated "poverty area." In 1969, out of 120 Marine Corps volunteers from Oakland, California, nearly 90 percent scored under 31; more than 70 percent were black or Mexican. Overall, 41 percent of Project 100,000 volunteers were black, compared to 12 percent of the rest of the armed forces. Touted as providing "rehabilitation," remedial education, and an escape from poverty, the program offered a one-way ticket to Vietnam, where these men fought and died in disproportionate numbers. The much-advertised skills were seldom taught.

http://iraqnow.blogspot.com/2007/10/fragging-is-rare-in-iraq-and.html