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Pentagon Targets Clueless Xbox Gamers To Enlist


by URI DOWBENKO

The Pentagon isn't targeting trailer trash like West Virginia's soldier- convict Lyndie England anymore.

The Pentagon is using PlayStation and Xbox to lure hapless twenty- something gamers to enlist in the US Army to fight Bush's illegal war on Iraq, reports Government Executive Magazine (July 15, 2005).

Games like "Close Combat: First to Fight" have been enormously successful in convincing gullible young people into believing that fighting the unpopular War on Iraq is just like playing Xbox.

CIA front company In-Q-Tel is using the same strategy to enlist the new generation of killer spooks for the Agency, by contracting Destineer Studios to develop a game to seduce new recruits for the CIA.

The new game is supposed to be a "spy training simulation."

It's not known if the game simulation includes CIA favorites like narcotics trafficking, weapons sales or financial fraud.

It's also not known if you get to torture ragheads at Gitmo or rape Iraqi civilians in the Pentagon version -- to prepare the youngsters, of ocurse, for actual field conditions.

The Pentagon needs new cannon fodder. The CIA needs a fresh crop of killer spooks.

And twenty- somethings are the obvious target...