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Dick: “ask them” is “bullshit” since, apparently unlike him, “they don't read twenty newspapers a day.” "You think everyone over there is a college graduate? They're 19 and 20-year-old kids who couldn't get a job.”

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Myth 1: Military recruits are less educated and have fewer work alternatives than other young Americans.

In fact, military recruits are far better educated than the general youth population, Carr said. More than 90 percent of recruits have a high school diploma, compared to about 75 percent of the U.S. youth population.

That's an important issue to the military, Carr said, because a traditional high school diploma is the single best indicator of a recruit's stick-to-it-ness and likelihood of successfully adjusting to military service.

Recruits with a high school diploma have a 70 percent probability of completing a three-year enlistment versus a 50 percent chance for nongraduates.

The military has exceeded the 90-percent benchmark for recruits with high school diplomas every year since 1983, Carr noted.

Myth 2: The military tends to attract people with lower aptitudes.

Recruits actually have much higher average aptitudes than the general youth population, Carr said. In fiscal 2005, 67 percent of recruits scored above the 60th percentile on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. The test is designed so that the average young person will score 50 percent, he explained.

But high achievement on the test isn't new, Carr said. Sixty percent of new enlistees have scored at or above the 50 percentile -- the military's benchmark for recruits -- every year since 1985.

Myth 3: The military attracts a disproportionate number of poor or underprivileged youth.

In reality, military recruits mirror the U.S. population and are solidly middle class, Carr said. He cited a recent Heritage Foundation report that shows most recruits come from middle-class families, rather than poorer or wealthier ones. Patterns in recent years reinforce this trend, showing a slight dip in recruits from lower socioeconomic groups and a slight increase from upper-class groups, Carr said.

Myth 4: A disproportionate number of recruits come from urban areas.

Inner cities are actually the most underrepresented area among new recruits, Carr said. Both suburban and rural areas are overrepresented, he said.

Myth 5: The military isn't geographically representative of America.

The southern part of the United States generates the most recruits, 41 percent, but also has the biggest youth population to draw from, 36 percent, Carr said. Twenty-four percent of recruits come from north-central regions, which have 23 percent of the youth population. The west, with 24 percent of the nation's youth, contributes 21 percent of the new enlistees. And the northeast, with 18 percent of the youth population, provides 14 percent of new recruits.

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Also, Hollywood has more or less been the cheerleading section for Al-Qaeda since September 11th. Any tributes they would make towards the troops would be phony anyways, so fuck them all.

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Yeah Hollywood has been real critical of terrorists of late Munich and Syriana for example.

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Yeah Hollywood has been real critical of terrorists of late Munich and Syriana for example.

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Any portrait of terrorism that doesn't define it as cowardly attacks on innocent civilians is unnacceptable. How can you call a movie that celebrates the murder of Olympians, like Munich, an objective look at terrorism. That was barbaric murder plain and simple and Hollywood couldn't celebrate it enough they wanted to give it every award available.

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Any portrait of terrorism that doesn't define it as cowardly attacks on innocent civilians is unnacceptable. How can you call a movie that celebrates the murder of Olympians, like Munich, an objective look at terrorism. That was barbaric murder plain and simple and Hollywood couldn't celebrate it enough they wanted to give it every award available.

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Reviewerboy is a leftist terror sympathiser who probably thinks these people are freedom fighters, or as Michael Moore believes, "Minutemen".

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<-Reviewerboy dreaming about getting anally fucked by trannies, like Arianna Jolie was.

BTW, the other person known for retreatin from flamewars by posting that emoticon was Ryan Knox. Apparently you will be replacing him as board bitch.

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Love your reactionary nature! It's so Ryan Knox. But I don't recall him having your silly liberal opinions, so in that sense, even he gets to laugh at you.

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that, and i believe democracy is a failed expiriment. people on the whole are too stupid to lead themselves and need to be led...

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Americans used to be involved in the democratic process, over time their democratic responsibilty turned to apathy. People elect their represetatives on name recognition, not their record.

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So obviously the idea of "spreading democracy" is just ludicrous to me...

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Especially at the point of a gun barrel, but don't worry, America hasn't spread any Democracy both Iraq's and Afghanistan's constitution are based on Muslim Shaira law.

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it didn't work in russia, it didn't work in afganhistan, it wont work in iraq... humanity needs tyranny to survive, or at the very least an enlightened despot. the key solution was stated by Emperor Joseph II of the Holy Roman Empire, "Everything for the people, nothing by the people."

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I'm not big on Fascism, Dictatorships, or Socialism/Communism myself. I think Democracy can work but you need an enlightened populace who's involved in the political process. It's not in the interest of most politicians, corporations, despots or religous leaders to have a constiuency that is involved and enlightened.

I don't think Democracy is in it's last throes, but it's pretty sick and weakly at the moment.

If Democracy fails in America it will be because the people didn't care enough to participate in Governing themselves.

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Why don't you cry like your little hero?

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It's been fun and all, but I have to go to bed. Some of us actually have jobs and shit.

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So, while I'm away, let me just say, your soon to be peacocking about how you handed me my ass, and all that bullshit, it ain't gonna fly.

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When you sleep, think... More Americans have been killed post 9/11 thanks to your idioitc right wing policies that, you have to say, isn't it great. Sleep tight, you ignorant fucking moron.

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McCain in 08!

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Why don't you cry like your little hero?

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I think she should be dragged behind a truck.

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Reviewerbitch probably wrote this.

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If boiled down to nothing but lard, this man could feed an entire Sudanese village.

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heh the only reason it is the graveyard of americans is that in order to appease the left we are using such soft and weak tactics. We shouldnt have even needed ground troops until the country was completely broken. some nice and efficient carpet bombing with daisy cutters would have solved the problem before it occured. Corpses can't have an insurgency.

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Just another media-whore pimping her dead son to further the Iraqi insurgent agenda, alongside Jesse Jackson's retarted mini-me Al Sharpton.

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heh the only reason it is the graveyard of americans is that in order to appease the left we are using such soft and weak tactics. We shouldnt have even needed ground troops until the country was completely broken. some nice and efficient carpet bombing with daisy cutters would have solved the problem before it occured. Corpses can't have an insurgency.

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Quote of the day. Nice job.

Where the hell are those wonderful neutron bombs? We could flash fry those Islamo-vermin without toppling any of the hovels they sleep and shit in.

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I try... Nuclear weapons would be a waste in arab countries... a waste of good fallout. Gas is always a good alternative...

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Bush = Hitler, Swastika = US Flag. Any wonder why they don't win elections?

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Now this one is great considering he is a white male. He can take a step towards ending white male supremacy by

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Now this one is great considering he is a white male. He can take a step towards ending white male supremacy by

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remember that post i made about intelligence tests and breeding licsenses... im sure at least one of those could prevent shit like this from happening... that or a good scourging.

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maybe you missed the part before, where i told you to look up the threads where i was christian, jewish, black and whatever... and then apply those to the sexuality thing. However i do believe that homosexuals, bi-sexuals, and whatever, are useful to society. So long as they aren't filthy hippies.

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