{"id":3091,"date":"2006-11-06T18:47:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T01:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/06\/army-recruiters-getting-desperate\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T18:47:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T01:47:36","slug":"army-recruiters-getting-desperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/06\/army-recruiters-getting-desperate\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Recruiters Getting Desperate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Army recruiters are getting so desperate for cannon fodder in Iraq that they are blatantly lying to potential recruits.<\/p>\n<p>According to an ABC News undercover investigation,\u00c2\u00a0Army recruiters even told\u00c2\u00a0students that the war in Iraq was over in\u00c2\u00a0order\u00c2\u00a0to get them to enlist. Students\u00c2\u00a0with hidden video cameras visited ten Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Here is a sample of what was recorded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?&#8221; one student asks a recruiter.<br \/>\n&#8220;No, we&#8217;re bringing people back,&#8221; he replies.<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;re not at war. War ended a long time ago,&#8221; another recruiter says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full story and video <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/story?id=2626032&amp;page=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army recruiters are getting so desperate for cannon fodder in Iraq that they are blatantly lying to potential recruits. According to an ABC News undercover investigation,\u00c2\u00a0Army recruiters even told\u00c2\u00a0students that the war in Iraq was over in\u00c2\u00a0order\u00c2\u00a0to get them to enlist. Students\u00c2\u00a0with hidden video cameras visited ten Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}