The army always needs to meet recruiting goals to keep the army strong, but lately they've had a lot of trouble filling the ranks. Thanks to Bush and his illegal war, the army has driven young men and women away from signing up and the fear of going into Iran troubles the parents of children a few years away from turning eighteen. So now with Barack Obama coming into the White House, at least one recruiter is running away from Bush and embracing the anti-Iraq war Barack Obama.
From ThinkProgress:
There are plenty of advantages in joining the army in terms of money for college and learning valuable skills and trades. The problem over the last several years is that the plague of the Iraq war has negated those pluses. Time will tell if we get out of Iraq and if recruiting increases, but this definitely has the potential to beef up the ranks.Within 24 hours of Barack Obama’s election, an Army career counselor sent out a recruiting e-mail promising that the new president would “get us out of Iraq,” reports VetVoice’s Brandon Friedman. “What are you waiting for?” the e-mail asks, arguing the election of Obama makes now the perfect time to join up:
Though it’s not clear whether this recruiter is acting alone, it signals that President Obama might be used as a new, forceful recruiting tool. “If so, this would symbolize a stunning — if not totally rational — renunciation of the Bush administration and its handling of the military,” Friedman writes. “If this becomes an Army policy, it represents a true ‘ding-dong the witch is dead’ moment for the service.”
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