Simple Answers to Simple Questions

Letter to the Chronicle, November 6, 2006:

Editor -- Question for the lefties of the Democratic persuasion: If, like John Kerry, you love and support our troops so much, then how come you try to banish their recruiters from college campuses?

SCOTT ABRAMSON
San Mateo

Here's one reason. Here's another:

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.

Any questions?

(Apologies to Atrios for stealing his title.)

Update: In comments, Steve H points out yet another reason:

More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams.

A six-month Associated Press investigation found that more than 80 military recruiters were disciplined last year for sexual misconduct with potential enlistees. The cases occurred across all branches of the military and in all regions of the country.

[That's all, folks]