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The Military Recruiter's Lament

By Scott Ritter, AlterNet. Posted January 18, 2006.


Recruiters should realize it's not military service Americans are rejecting, but rather military service in support of a cause not deemed worthy of the sacrifice expected.

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Scott Ritter served as a chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 until his resignation in 1998. He is the author of, most recently, "Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein" (Nation Books, 2005).

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