The poor shouldering the burden of fighting - and dying - in Iraq

it's the american way...

[N]ewly released Pentagon demographic data show that the military is leaning heavily for recruits on economically depressed, rural areas where youths' need for jobs may outweigh the risks of going to war.

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Many of today's recruits are financially strapped, with nearly half coming from lower-middle-class to poor households, according to new Pentagon data based on Zip codes and census estimates of mean household income. Nearly two-thirds of Army recruits in 2004 came from counties in which median household income is below the U.S. median.

just another example of the economic divide that's deepening in this country... the war is making gazillionaires out of those who bear virtually none of its consequences... of course, that's not a situation that's unique to today... it's been the case throughout most of history... today, however, it's just one hell of a lot more visible and, thus, a lot harder to tolerate...

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