Here's a way the US can fix the lack of soldier problem in IRAQ...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

AND fix the budget crisis the corrections department is seeing right now...
Take non violent offenderssuch as those that are going to be in for stupid drug offenses, and give them a choice. Either go into the Army or Marines, and if they serve a certain amount of time, they get to go free after your service, and they won't go back to jail if they live as a productive member of society for ten years after your service, committing no more crimes.
Idiot in charge would have plenty of bodies and the Corrections department would save BILLIONS.
What do you think?
Duckie

[atreides1]

1. I Think

I want some of what you've been smoking.

[Telly Savalas]

2. It would be preferable...

to simply legalize drugs and pull out of Iraq.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. I'm just telling you the conversation I overheard earlier...

And I agree with you.
Duckie

[Telly Savalas]

8. Whew, I'm glad I didn't shoot back with a bunch of vitriol then!

[alittlelark]

3. I don't think getting caught w/an oz of weed

is enough of a crime to want to send the kid to Iraq.

The prison industrial complex would never let it happen.

[MichiganVote]

4. I think you have scewed idea of what the criminal justice system is all

about and that you need to reconsider your
'off the cuff' idea.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. I heard it on the street earlier when I went down to meet a friend

who dropped something off. There were people waiting for a bus in the shade, and I over heard.
I swear to God, this was not my idea.
Duckie

[MichiganVote]

7. Its fundie...I've both read it and heard it

[GaYellowDawg]

9. I have a better solution:

All children of all politicians who publicly support the war must be drafted and put on the front line in Iraq. We'd be out of there tomorrow.

[jmowreader]

10. It's basically capital punishment for weed

There are infantry sergeants major being killed in Iraq. These men have upwards of thirty years service and many if not most of them had prior combat service. They KNOW how to not get killed in a war.

If these men are dying for Bush, imagine what the death rate among pot smokers who'd never been in the military before would be. ESPECIALLY when they'd receive not-so-much training.

[MrSandman]

11. They used to do that for ...

17 yo's in the 30's.

Well, some judges took it upon themselves to do that.

Heck, just take every 10th graduating senior. That will stop this war pronto.