I don't know if I'd be too willing to pummle CNN over this.
I'm not in the military, but I come from a family that has a lot of military people in it's past (father, both grandfathers, 2 cousins, etc.) ALL OF THEM say that military recruiters lie their ass off.
I don't think that makes the military evil or anything, I just think it makes the recruiters like used car salesmen. You can get a good used car, you just have to know how to interpret what the salesmen tell you.
Regarding used-car salesman and CNN, please see last line of the original thread.