Setting the Record Straight: AP's Misleading Military Recrui

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Tony Snow comes out kickin’

Setting the Record Straight: AP’s Misleading Military Recruiting Article

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“setting the record straight” on the White House website? :laughing: :laughing: You must have meant “spinning the issue”.

Snow will continue in his role as shill for the worst presidency in American history…

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002501230
:s

meanwhile:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051002061.html?sub=AR

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And a little straighter yet:

"The Army Reserve, taxed by recruiting shortfalls and war-zone duty, has adopted a policy barring officers from leaving the service if their field is undermanned or they have not been deployed to Iraq, to Afghanistan or for homeland defense missions.

The reserve has used the unpublicized policy, first adopted in 2004 and strengthened in a May 2005 memo signed by Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly, its commander, to disapprove the resignations of at least 400 reserve officers, according to Army figures. . . .

Blocking reserve officers’ resignations is one of several steps the Army has undertaken in recent years to keep soldiers beyond their original terms of service, as today’s wars place unprecedented demands on the all-volunteer force. Under another practice, known as “stop-loss,” thousands of active-duty Army and reserve soldiers have been temporarily prevented from leaving the military, either because their skills were needed or because their units were going overseas. As of January, more than 13,000 soldiers were being kept in the service under stop-loss, a policy criticized by some as a “backdoor draft,” which the Army says it seeks to end.

But experts in military law say barring reserve officers from resigning is in some ways more expansive and open-ended than stop-loss. The policy applies to officers who do not fall under stop-loss.

At the heart of the controversy is whether a law stating that commissioned reserve officers are appointed “for an indefinite term and are held during the pleasure of the President” gives the government the power to force them to serve permanently – as Army lawyers say – or only to discharge them against their will."

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Now wait, wait - hold your breath. Setting it even straighter: China’s human rights abuses turned out to be vastly over exaggerated.

Read all about it here under:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/

I shit you not.

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Considering this guy is a puppet of puppets on a string, should we be making a big deal of this?

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well, SnowJob gave his first televised press briefing…and the
very first answer
he gave was an Orwellian spin:

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/16/snows-first-question/

navillus is correct: I should not make such an issue of him…

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I’m not feeling the love here…

added:

[quote]Active-Duty Recruiting Tops Goals for 11th Straight Month
By Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, May 10, 2006

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Tainancowboy:

Stop with all the facts already. I already know how I FEEL about this subject so get on with talking about how I feel about my feelings already, like cuz, already enough already with these links and stuff.

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[quote=“fred smith”]Tainancowboy:
Stop with all the facts already. I already know how I feel about this subject so get on with talking about how I feel about my feelings already, like cuz, already enough already with these links and stuff.[/quote]
Who are you and what have you done with Fred Smith IV?..:wink:

Try a nice Chilean Cabernet Fred…delightful!

(I am not a wine pimp…nor am I Chilean)