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es347fan
07-07-2006, 09:30 PM
Watchdog: Neo-Nazi sympathizers slip into U.S. military

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Neo-Nazis and other white supremacists have increasingly been able to infiltrate the U.S. military due to recruitment pressures created by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a watchdog group said Friday.

KKK2U (http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/07/neo.nazis.in.military.reut/index.html)

... "There is mounting evidence that military recruiters and commanders, under intense pressure to meet manpower goals with the country at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, have relaxed standards designed to prohibit racist extremists from serving in the armed forces," the center's Chief Executive Richard Cohen told Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in a letter.

DrewM
07-07-2006, 09:41 PM
They seem to be also allowing in murderers & rapists.

Vilepagan
07-07-2006, 09:51 PM
They seem to be also allowing in murderers & rapists.

A little trickier to weed those out don't you think?

Imagineer
07-08-2006, 03:29 AM
With the current shortfalls in recruiting, I suspect that a lot of people are being let in that might have been rejected in better times.