Posted on 06/29/2005 8:10:05 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
During his speech at Fort Bragg Tuesday night, President Bush urged young Americans to consider a career in the military, saying "there is no higher calling than service in our Armed Forces."
But if Senator Hillary Clinton has her way, it's going to be even harder for the military to meet its recruitment goals.
In a statement posted to her official Senate web site, Clinton blasts the Pentagon for "infringing on the privacy of high school students" by trying to find out if any of them might be good candidates for voluntary military service.
In an apparent blast at the Armed Forces, Clinton declared: "It is critical that we do everything we can to make sure that our most sensitive personal information stays out of the wrong hands."
The Pentagon - "the wrong hands"?
Hillary said she wants to make it tougher for recruiters to find out which students might want to serve their country, by denying them access to information like Social Security numbers, ethnicities, birth dates, class schedules and grade point averages.
Along with six other Senate Democrats, Mrs. Clinton has written to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, saying she is concerned that recruiters may be guilty of racial profiling.
"We fail to see a legitimate need for the creation of a database containing such personal information and are concerned that it may be an inappropriate effort to profile students based on ethnicity and other personal factors," she complained.
Yeah, like 900 FBI files or Rose Law Firm billing records?
And then she'll complain that recruitment is down and blame Bush
She is a Hypocrite
How about restricting Hillary? We shouldn't have to look or listen to that shrill beeaach. Wish these leftist libs would stand down and let the adults run things!
She and her "husband" have never given a damn about the military, except when they were able to use it to deflect attention away from their neverending 8 years of scandals!
SURE, as soon as we don't have to give THAT kind of SENSITIVE information to the government.....(like that'll ever happen.) If colleges/universities can get the information, so can our military recruiters, you witch!
All 18 year old males have to register...no need for H.S. recruiting...If a student is too dumb to know about the military opportunities, why bother....
...except when it pertains to 900+ classified FBI files to be used against your potential political enemies....
LOL! You can't make this stuff up I tell ya!
Chelsea needs to enlist.
If Hillary clinton has her way, she'll erode the military like her husband did.
I don't know what in the heck Carl Rove was complaining about earlier this week! Right in this article is all the proof I need that high level Democrat politicians are as seriously focused on winning the war on terror as any concerned Americans can possibly be.
So she wants colleges to quit asking for the same information?
Well, since the Clintons cut the miliatry by nearly 50%, you would think she would want to help out to get it back up...
someone needs to inform the Widemouth Bass from NY that anyone under 18 has to have a parent present before they can enlist...
in the mean time, she should STFU!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
military guilty of racial profiling?
Is she afraid that if more blacks get into the US military she'll have less blacks to enable in some hopeless welfare scheme?
Presidential and Vice-Presidential daughters, nieces, and nephews excepted, of course.
"... is critical that we do everything we can to make sure that our most sensitive personal information stays out of the wrong hands."
This is typical of Hillary Clinton not to want information in someone else's hands so she can covet the same information. Typical
Under Clintons regime, the Army went from over 700,000 in numbers to barely 400,000. The Army alone! My friend has been in the Navy for about 15yrs and said most would not re-up under the draft dodging, military loather.
This is the witch with a 'B' who wants all our medical records on line?
Yeah, the clintoons never respected our military. Our soldiers were to be used or discarded as they see fit. That's why during the clintoonian administration, bombing of an average of 8 countries in 7 years, more than any other president in history of the US.
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