war is over (if you say so)

It's got to be tough to be an Army recruiter these days. The people who shout the loudest about the need to go to war are the least likely to volunteer.

So how do you get people to enlist? Well, you could always lie your ass off:

An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to enlist.

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.

Despite the pressure to make quota, these tactics are reprehensible, and any recruiter who would lie like that ought to be held fully accountable for his actions.

Of course, such accountability should begin at the top, but that's not likely to happen with the kind of "leadership" we're getting from men like Bush and Rumsfeld.