Smear Campaign

[unhappycamper]

Smear Campaign
Oliver North | January 17, 2008

Waukesha, WI – Here in "Cheesehead" country, where Green Bay Packer fans go to Lambeau field with snow shovels, military recruiting has never been much of a problem – until now. "These are outdoors, patriotic people," a military recruiter told me as I prepared to speak at a Boy Scout function here. "Young people up here are tough. They hunt, they ice-fish, they go to football games in an open stadium in the middle of a blizzard. This used to be a great place to be a recruiter – but not any more," he continued.

"What’s happened," I asked this two-tour veteran of the Global War on Terror.

His reply was blunt – and an indictment of the so-called mainstream media: "The press is killing us. We have parents and high school guidance counselors telling our best prospective recruits that they have too much potential to waste it in the military. Last year we had to debunk myths about how the war in Iraq was being lost. Now when we go to talk to parents they ask us about stories they have heard about suicides, drugs – and now murders. There is no 'good news.' It's very discouraging."

Remember those words: "very discouraging."

The "murders" my recruiter referred to are those "documented" by The New York Times in a front page story entitled "Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles." The "Deadly Echoes" piece appeared concurrently with the hunt for a male Marine suspected of killing a fellow female Marine in North Carolina – a story that has been repeated almost hourly on the cable news channels.


Rest of funny, funny article from a funny, funny man: http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,160277,00.html?wh=wh



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[sam sarrha]

1. look, if they are willing to take people on anti-psychotic medication they should make em take it..!

[Fresh_Start]

2. Military is not happy with the current generation

they listen to their parents. How unreasonable.