recruit those kids

Well, I think I've figured out how the KGB (king george bush) is going to avoid instituting the military draft. And I am not sure I like it, though surely fewer children will be sacrificed to the war machine.

I just read this:

"Thanks to a still little-known provision in the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, high schools like South Lakes are required to provide military recruiters with previously confidential information on students..." You can read the whole article here. In the same article it also says, "In 1999, military recruiters were barred from schools on 19,228 occasions, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. And especially now, recruiters assert, with the military fighting major combat operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the need for a steady supply of fresh recruits is ever more important."

And why do they need a steady supply of bodies? Because they have messed it all up and they don't have an exit strategy. If the whatever-the-hell-it-is (war's over, remember?) in Iraq were a school assignment, the shrub would have received a failing grade by now.

Here are some more articles about recruiters in the public schools:

Army Recruiters: No Latino Left Behind

OPERATION OPT OUT

Iraq presents challenges for military recruiters

Tougher sell than it used to be - Local military recruiters feel impact of war