U.S. Military To Be American Foreign Legion?

It appears the US Military under the leadership of the killing machine known as the Bush Administration will do anything to keep the quagmire of Iraq going. According to Boston.com Pentagon officials are considering expanding the number of noncitizens in the ranks -- including disputed proposals to open recruiting stations overseas and putting more immigrants on a faster track to US citizenship if they volunteer Of course the always pro-war conservatives at American Enterprise Institute speaking through supposed military scholar Thomas Donnelly says "It works as a military idea and it works in the context of American immigration". The article also quotes other Army officials, who asked not to be identified .... personnel officials are working with Congress and other parts of the government to test the feasibility of going beyond US borders to recruit soldiers and Marines. Currently, Pentagon policy stipulates that only immigrants legally residing in the United States are eligible to enlist. There are currently about 30,000 noncitizens who serve in the US armed forces, making up about 2 percent of the active-duty force, according to statistics from the military and the Council on Foreign Relations. About 100 non-citizens have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. A recent change in US law, however, gave the Pentagon authority to bring immigrants to the United States if it determines it is vital to national security. So far, the Pentagon has not taken advantage of it, but the calls are growing to take use the new authority. Read on.... I realize recruiting levels have reached an all-time low, but this is totally ridiculous - unless of course you also have something bigger in the works such as starting a war in Iran. They know damn well what an outcry it would cause if they dared to bring back the draft, so just as they look the other way when big business brings in aliens from Mexico and elsewhere to work at a cheaper wage, they can now wave something even bigger as an incentive CITIZENSHIP. Of course they will neglect to tell them they'll have to dodge bullets and IED's so they can live long enough to claim it.