Military recruiters: "The war is over"

Sting operation [1] reveals that military recruiters are lying to enlistees:

ABC News and New York affiliate WABC equipped students with hidden video cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

"Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?" one student asks a recruiter.

"No, we're bringing people back," he replies.

"We're not at war. War ended a long time ago," another recruiter says.

Last year, the Army suspended recruiting nationwide to retrain recruiters following hundreds of allegations of improprieties.

One Colorado student taped a recruiting session posing as a drug-addicted dropout.

"You mean I'm not going to get in trouble?" the student asked.

The recruiters told him no, and helped him cheat to sign up.

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. Operating under an impossible quota can put unbearable pressure upon anyone, much less someone trying to convince people to place their lives in danger. It’s just another sad commentary on the complete dearth of righteousness in Team Bush’s foreign policy.