Reply #53: I've got three republicans on my block [View All]

[Jakes Progress]

who are big on the war. They all have kids 16-28. If they thought their kid might have to go, they would change in a minute.

When I posed the question to a couple of them, one was true to form and said that his son was not the kind that should have to do that kind of thing because he had things to offer the country that "those" kids did not. The other hemmed and told how he would be able to keep his kids in school or work with his buddies to get them off. If there were an honest, all inclusive lottery where their kids were indeed at risk, they would protest the draft, vote against the ones who put it in, and eventually call for the war to end when they couldn't use privilege to exempt their children.

(Oh. And none of these three ever spent any time in service.)