How the Pentagon Turns Working-Class Men into the Deadliest Killers on the Planet
By David Swanson, davidswanson.org
http://www.alternet.org/story/149165/
The following is an excerpt from David Swanson’s self-published new book War is a Lie (David Swanson, 2010).
Since the Vietnam War, the United States has dropped all pretense of a military draft equally applied to all. Instead we spend billions of dollars on recruitment, increase military pay, and offer signing bonuses until enough people "voluntarily" join by signing contracts that allow the military to change the terms at will. If more troops are needed, just extend the contracts
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