AlterNet: War on Iraq: The Pentagon's Manpower Crisis: "Military recruiting numbers are deep into the Porta-Potty. The all-volunteer military has been run into the ground -- and now it's broken."

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"They were short last month by a whopping 42 percent. Let's break that percentage down. For April, the active-duty Army was short of its target of 6,600 by 3,379. Think about that. 3,379 short. It's not like we need millions of bodies here. Just 3,379. We are at war, we have a population of over 290 million people, and we can't get 3,379 people to join the fight? Wow.

We would have an easier time convincing parents to send their kids to the Neverland ranch for a sleepover party."

(Via AlterNet.)