"Geoff Miller" > wrote in message ...
>
>
> Jack F. Twist > writes:
>
> : Uh, what does their sitting in an air-conditioned room, or their
> : weight (O'Reilly is actually pretty slender) have to do with the
> : merit of their positions Iraq?
>
> > That first part has everything to do with it. If somehow it was
> > constitutional to pass a law which requires members of our Executive
> > and Legislative branches of government to send their own kids to war
> > before anyone else's, it would put an end to military adventurism
> > immediately, and forever.
>
> But in fact it isn't that way. Therefore that first part had nothing
> to do with it.

Only inside your pea brain.

> > Mr. Bush and Congress are very adept at sending other people's kids
> > to fight and die, but they wouldn't be so quick on the trigger if
> > their own kids' lives were at stake.
>
> Speculation.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

> Do you really believe that the nation's leaders are so small-minded
> that they're insensitive to other people's kids being killed and
> maimed in wars, or that in the context of formulating national policy,
> they'd differentiate between their children and those of others when
> it came to placing lives at risk? Do you seriously think that awful
> burden wouldn't weigh heavily on _anyone's_ shoulders?

It's been a trend with Mr. Bush ever since he was a kid, when
his idea of "fun" was shoving firecrackers down the throats of
small animals and watching them explode. Now he's doing
the same thing to our children. But his own amoral ass? He
went running under his daddy's coat at the very prospect of
serving combat duty in Vietnam.