How badly are Bush, Rummy and Dark Lord Cheney screwing up the US military?

Here's a clue:

Racist extremists active in U.S. military Southern Poverty Law Center 07/07/06

Under pressure to meet wartime manpower goals, the U.S. military has relaxed standards designed to weed out racist extremists. Large numbers of potentially violent neo-Nazis, skinheads and other white supremacists are now learning the art of warfare in the armed forces.

Department of Defense investigators estimate thousands of soldiers in the Army alone are involved in extremist or gang activity. "We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad," said one investigator. "That's a problem." ...

Military extremists present an elevated threat both to their fellow soldiers and the general public. Today's white supremacists become tomorrow's domestic terrorists.

So, not only is the Iraq War providing training for jihadists on the other side. It's also now providing training for Christian terrorists on our side from some of the worst hate groups. Oh, vey!

Mark Potok of the SPLC is quoted as saying:

We should consider this a major security threat, because these people are motivated by an ideology that calls for race war and revolution. Any one of them could turn out to be the next Timothy McVeigh.

For more see the extended article A Few Bad Men: Ten years after a scandal over neo-Nazis in the armed forces, extremists are once again worming their way into a recruit-starved military by David Holthouse SPLC 07/07/06.

But the Bush administration isn't worrying too much about Christian terrorists. They're too busy tracking down animal rights activists.

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