Here's an interesting article by our old friend, Hack Kelly. See? The army did meet its recruitment goals for June, and the other branches are doing wonderful! Besides, re-enlistments are higher than usual!
Now let's look at a few things:
(1) The higher-than-normal re-enlistment rate is partly due to people being co-erced into re-enlisting.
(2) The army lowered its monthly recruiting goals by 1350 in May.
(3) I question whether similar trickery is being used for the Marine recruiting goals, and for the Air Force and Navy, I don't believe that they are recruiting heavily, nor are they at quite as high a risk of serving in Iraq.
Bottom line? We will begin running out of troops, according to some, by mid-2006. No amount of Hackery by Mr. Kelly will change that. If Iraq is not mostly under control at that time, we'll have to use severe brutality against the Sunni Arabs, start a draft, or give up.
I await the Kurdish death squads.
That is all.
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