War Crimes The Kids Can Get For Their Own

If you hated the war before, you will really hate it now. When the cretin in chief went to war and stayed there, it was conducted on the backs of the military who had joined voluntarily. Of course, there was an assumption that only rational judgment of actual danger would ever drive this country to enter into something bloody and horrible as a war is. Silly us. But now there's a consideration that your kids and your grandkids can be sent to die in this exercise in politics at its most revolting.

The White House war czar said Friday that it makes sense to consider a draft as an option for relieving stresses on U.S. forces.

Though Bush administration officials and U.S. military leaders have long shunned the notion of reinstating a draft, Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, President Bush's top military adviser on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said the draft has "always been an option on the table" and that it "makes sense to certainly consider it."

In an interview on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Gen. Lute said the military is competing for a "very narrow slice" of high school graduates and that the draft is one of several options to prevent the military from breaking.

"Today, the current means of the all-volunteer force is serving us exceptionally well," Gen. Lute said. "It would be a major policy shift, not actually a military but a political policy shift, to move to some other course."

National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Gen. Lute's comments are consistent with Mr. Bush's stated policy in regard to any potential use of the draft. "The president believes an all-volunteer military serves the country well, and there is no discussion of returning to a draft," Mr. Johndroe said.

The comments followed a U.S. Army announcement that it had surpassed its recruiting target for July by about 2 percent, pulling nearly 10,000 new soldiers into the service last month despite what Army officials describe as one of the most difficult recruiting environments in history.

There's another way to end the war. Unless you are already a conscientious objector, which you should check into, if you are a young man or woman you may have to commit the crimes that the cabal in the White House has decided it will commit. If you aren't on the street demonstrating now, this ought to get you out.

As vastleft titled his announcement at correntewire; "Honey, I put the kids on the table". This is bloodcurdling, that the war criminals have powers that can be used to make your kids and grandkids their accomplices. I brought my kids up as members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), for the reason that it is a wonderfully rational and lowkey religion, but with the aspect in mind that it does enable them to show conscientious objector status. I recommend it. I do not recommend letting them get by with making you and your commit their crimes for them.