From Reuters, 6/30/05:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N30542920.htm

Army recruits shortfall blamed on Iraq war critics

By Vicki Allen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -

Several Senate Republicans denounced other lawmakers and the news media on Thursday for unfavorable depictions of the Iraq war and the Pentagon urged members of Congress to talk up military service to help ease a recruiting shortfall.

Families are discouraging young men and women from enlisting "because of all the negative media that's out there," Sen. James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, said at a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

Inhofe also said that other senators' criticism of the war contributed to the propaganda of U.S. enemies.

He did not name the senators.