LOOKS LIKE THE TROOPS ARE VOTING

The wingnuts keep telling us that 90% of the troops support the war in Iraq but the numbers tell a different story.

Military recruiting is short of some goals
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Tucson, Arizona Published: 11.18.2005

The military is falling far behind in its effort to recruit and re-enlist soldiers for some of the most vital combat positions in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new government report.

The report, completed by the Government Accountability Office, shows that the Army, National Guard and Marines signed up as few as a third of the Special Forces soldiers, intelligence specialists and translators that they had aimed for in the last year.

The report found that overall the military, which is engaged in the most demanding wartime recruitment effort since the 1970s, had failed to adequately staff fully 41 percent of its array of combat and noncombat ranks.