Military recruiters kick themselves for not securing PS3s

With troop levels in Iraq called into serious question and Army recruiters having a difficult time with recruitment (“Get money for college if you don’t have your head blown off by an insurgent”), it seems that the government missed a big opportunity in not inking an exclusive distribution deal with Sony over the PS3. After all, if people are willing to camp out for days on end and engage in physical violence, then signing on with a military recruiter for a tour of duty in the Iraqi countryside might also seem a small price to pay in order to pay the price to buy PS3.

John Kerry could have changed the joke to, “If you don’t study hard in school and play video games, you could get stuck in Iraq” prompting an outcry about how military service is about more than using all of one’s brain energy to use one’s opposable thumbs, from people who spent the Vietnam years on their asses (ie Bush Cheney, Limbaugh).

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