When the Right gets just a bit too scary.

This New York Times article outlines right-wing, racially intolerant people using the military for their own purposes. Aryan graffiti in Bagdhad? Free para-military training? I shudder, I do.

"The report said that neo-Nazi groups like the National Alliance, whose founder, William Pierce, wrote "The Turner Diaries," the novel that was the inspiration and blueprint for Timothy J. McVeigh's bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, sought to enroll followers in the Army to get training for a race war.

The groups are being abetted, the report said, by pressure on recruiters, particularly for the Army, to meet quotas that are more difficult to reach because of the growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq.

The report quotes Scott Barfield, a Defense Department investigator, saying, "Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join the armed forces, and commanders don't remove them from the military even after we positively identify them as extremists or gang members.'"

Are we that desperate for military recruiting? How about we try a little truth in advertising; oh and proven age-old capitalist methods of retaining talent. Keep them happy. Lower tours of duty, pay them competitive wages, don't make the reservists lose their real jobs and families, give them non-scratchy underwear, decent tank shielding, and oh... KEVLAR PERSONAL ARMOR.

It is long past time to remove our soldiers from the Middle East, Mr. Bush. You did your thing. Now leave the Sunni and Shia to beat on each other without our involvement. They don't need our help, really, they've been having these little pissing matches since their Prophet's grandson died, and they are quite good at it. And deciding who wins that political and religious supremacy match is none of our business.