If bush's kids won't sign up and fight, WHY SHOULD MINE?

[mopaul]

[Deja Q]

1. If they had, they'd get special treatment.

It's ALWAYS been that way. Celebrities, et al, get special privileges.

[DanCa]

2. Hmmm

Can you actually see the Bush girls fighting in iraq in thier jammies with a pillow in one hand, and a beer can in the other? In all serious I agree with ya.

[fasttense]

3. Damn straight.

And I'm retired military myself.

I believe one of the best things I ever did was stick out twenty years in the Navy. I truly believe what President John F. Kennedy said, "Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile...can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction. "I served in the United States Navy."

But I wouldn't recommend it to my children or to your children today.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Roger that Shipmate

I have that quote framed and hanging proudly on my I love Me Wall.

01 August 1963 as he addressed students at the Naval Academy

With the right and sane civilian leadership, the military is a wonderful career.

[fasttense]

10. You know that.

Thanks for the info on where and when he said it. I had heard it but never knew where the quote came from.

God, what I wouldn't give to have an experienced Commander and Chief in the White House again. Or at least a sane one.

[SunDrop23]

4. Absolutely

[Democrat 4 Ever]

6. Read Vanity Fair's article on recruiting. What we do to our young.

Vanity Fair does not make the articles available online. If you can get a copy (September 2005) be sure and read about the pressure that is being put on Army and Marine recruiters to man Dim Son's war.

303 | THE RECRUITERS' WAR It's a different kind of hell for military recruiters "trolling" strip malls and high schools in an increasingly desperate effort to fill their quotas. With army and Marine sources, Michael Bronner lays bare a system of manipulation, fraud, and, in one case, fatal pressure. Portraits by Harry Benson.

Some other stories from September's issue that should have everyone screaming from the roof tops...

256 | ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROVE Enough with the sanctimonious twaddle about protecting sources, writes Michael Wolff: Karl Rove's leak to Time was the tip of a nasty iceberg, and the media helped suppress the biggest story of Bush's presidency. Illustration by Philip Burke.

264 | AN INCONVENIENT PATRIOT Naturalized American Sibel Edmonds went to work as an F.B.I. translator after 9/11. But she says she was fired for sounding the alarm about a colleague's suspicious behavior, then silenced by the "state-secrets privilege." As Edmonds prepares a Supreme Court appeal, David Rose reveals why she's such a threat to the status quo. Photographs by Henry Leutwyler.

[mopaul]

7. remember when bush asked young folks to join up?

but not his own perfectly qualified daughters.

[NNN0LHI]

8. Because Bush is hoping our kids are not as smart as his

Jeb's got military age children including a son too. Same answer for him.

Don

[mopaul]

9. i guess they hate america