<p>I just wondered how many parents out there who support Bush would be willing to let their kids sign up for the military now, in hopes of supporting his war in Iraq? </p>
<p>If you aren't willing to do so, whose kids do you think should die for that "cause" (whatever it is - no one seems to know)? </p>
<p>If he "continues on the path to spreading Democracy in the Middle East" will you send your kids to Iran? Pakistan?</p>
<p>haha, take it like a man and be depressed for the next 4 years. Stop sounding like an idiot. hehehe :-) I meant that in the nicest way possible. How old are you?</p>
<p>Good screen name.</p>
<p>What people like you and Michael Moore forget is that parents don't send their children to join the military, it is the children's decision. I'm not a parent (yet) but if I was I would neither discourage or encourage my child from fighting in the military. I do support the war, but, once my kids turn eighteen, I'm not going to tell them what to do like you seem to believe I would be able to. I think the real question is, "Would YOU join the military?"</p>
<p>hahahahahaha, I do believe it tells us something.</p>
<p>i think op raised a good question....more like would you WANT your kid to go fight and maybe die to secure "freedom" and "democracy" for people you'll never meet and many of whom dont even want troops there to "help" them</p>
<p>Sounds like a rhetorical question to me.</p>
<p>wow, I never realized this before, but some people here...</p>
<p>As a bleeding-heart liberal, I would never want to join the armed forces and fight some enemy I had never known, seen, or met. That aside, I have a certain level of respect and admiration for those people my age brave enough and strong enough in their beliefs to fight for them.</p>
<p>"many of whom dont even want troops there to "help" them"</p>
<p>You'd be surprised at the number of Iraqis who are overjoyed to have Saddam gone. If they don't feel that way now, they will later. Look at Afghanistan...the country is still in adjustment, but the elections even went more smoothly then our 2000 one.</p>
<p>hahahaha, yea i'm sure ill really be surprised...or maybe you would be surprised when you learn that the media's been feeding you lies.</p>
<p>I am not interested in my children joining the armed forces. I grew up as an "army brat" and my brother was an officer in the military, and that way of life, that I well know, does not appeal to me for a variety of reasons. However, if any of my children should choose to join the military, I would support this choice. Several of my close friends have children who have made this choice. Both have kids in ROTC and both want to be fighter pilots. If this situation in Iraq continues, accelerates or if any other world crisis where our military is involved occurs, their kids will likely be on the front line--voluntarily because of the choice they made. One parent is a Bush supporter, the other a diehard Democrat. I don't see how the OP's question has anything to do with how one voted. I have seen arguments on the likelihood of a draft and increased military activity resulting from either Kerry or Bush being the president, and I can't assess which one is more likely to avert an all out war that just may break out. Neither can anyone else with any certainty. And if an all out war that threatens our way of life does occur, I am confident that most Americans will support the president, whoever he might be in getting an army together. I feel that the reason there is so much speculating and sniping is that we are not in that situation. So far our troops over there volunteered for the military knowing that there is a possibility that they could end up in combat. When 9/11 occured nearly everyone was behind the president, and that included both parties in congress. Bipartisan sniping came to a near standstill. We are fortunate we are not in such a crisis now, but this gives us the luxery to bicker. Just as many strong, loving families may bicker all of the time, when a real emergency occurs, they stick together. So I believe will occur if we go to war. </p>
<p>I supported and denied each candidate on a variety of positions. In the end I had to weigh it all together, and pick the better situation for me, a selfish choice, but I felt that there was not enough of an overriding reason to try to pick the best overall choice this time. Others picked differently. We will soon see how Bush will perform now that the pressure of getting another term is off, and he has a mandate and majority. Hopefully, he does well. Since he was in on this Iraq situation from the onset and has as much information as anyone on it, hopefully he can extricate us from that country the best way possible and without involving a draft. At this point the official line is that we have adequate armed forces without a draft to deal with the situation for a while to come. There are many who believe that having Kerry at the helm would have prolonged the situation, and a number of them are Kerry supporters. It is impossible to say which man would best resolve the Iraq problem.</p>
<p>As to the original question, I would also query how many parents who support Kerry would be willing to have their kids sign up for the military in hopes of supporting the war in Iraq? You don't think that Kerry was going to send the troops home immediately do you? You don't know what would happen (as we don't know what is going to happen next) if Kerry were president. In a volatile situation like Iraq, the Middle East, terrorists, anything can happen to exacerbate the conflict. The question was not one of heavy relevance in the election. Perhaps we weighed who would end the conflict sooner in a satisfactory way, or who would be more likely to institute a draft, or who would be less likely to set off another spate of attacks, but I don't think the question as asked was such a pertinant issue.</p>
<p>um kebree I think you are watching to much fox. the majority is Iraqis are not happy with what the Bush administration has done thats why they massacred 50 ING soldiers and are always killing an average of 1 or more American a day. In Afghanistan things are not going well, there are daughters still getting beat by their fathers over issues like marriage.</p>
<p>Let's think about this for a second. Would you say that a "majority" of AMERICANS agree about IRAQ? After last week, I don't think any of us could say that. So, it's probably not a good idea for us, who are not in Iraq and have no REAL idea of what IRAQIs are thinking, to make blanket statements that begin "the majority of Iraqi's" think about anything. The simple fact is, we don't know. We are all making assumptions based on our AMERICAN viewpoints. We have NEVER lived in a country under a dictator like Saddam Hussein who slaughtered, jailed and tortured hundreds of thousands of his citizens for no reason at all...nor have we lived in a country where hundreds of thousands of other citizens enjoyed superior rights simply because they belonged to a PREFERRED religious majority. So, let's not make assumptions and decisions about what IRAQI citizens want. We can't - we are not them, we do not know. Let's help them hold democratic elections and speak for themselves.</p>
<p>And one more thing. I think it is important to use numbers carefully. WHile it is correct that over 1100 US military personnel have died in Iraq, not all of them have been killed by Iraqi citizens. A substantial number have died in non-combat accidents and many others have been killed by the actions of non-iraqi militia that have come into Iraq to fight. It is simply incorrect to say that over 1000 US military personnel have been killed by Iraqi citizens or that IRaqi citizens are killing US military personnel every day.</p>
<p>^^I LOVE IT!!!!!</p>
<p>your kids are too pansy for the frontline anyways. if they do get drafted <em>farts</em> they'd probably be filing papers all day. in other words they'd get put in the air force.</p>
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<p>My answer....NO WAY! I do not support that war, no way, no how. My kid will not be drafted to fight something that never should have been started in the first place.</p>
<p>My question is why didn't Bush send his own childern to war, from the get-go? They should have been on the front lines. After all, if he believed so much in the war, the sacrifice of his own daughters would have made him, "proud"...no?</p>
<p>Over and out...</p>
<p>Some of these posts are extremely immature.</p>
<p>As for the people who said they don't choose for their kids. What if the draft comes back? They should have people vote on the war, and those that support it should be automatically signed up. Then people will really think about whether they truly support it.</p>
<p>Zante, that would be the most rediculous thing ever. I support the War in Iraq, but does that mean I should have to join the military and go over there? Absolutely not. </p>
<p>Do you support inspection of nuclear arms? Maybe you should go over to Iran and North Korea to look for traces of nuclear development. </p>
<p>Do you support the innovation of alternative energy? Maybe you should go to a laboratory and start working on hydrogen fuel cell technology. </p>
<p>Do you support Canadian prescription drugs? Maybe you can drive to Canada and bring back all the prescription drugs for us. </p>
<p>The point is: you don't necessarily have to be an active participant in something to be an advocate of it.</p>
<p>uc_benz...</p>
<p>if no you, then who should it be? children from low-income families? kids from the inner city? kids without enough money for college? </p>
<p>i guess you outsource this job too, no?</p>
<p>I'm just saying that lots of people seem to support the war without understanding the consequences. In fact, I do think you should go join the military and fight if you believe in it so much. There are a lot of people who are misinformed and support the war just because of what they hear from the media (and they tend to only pay attention to sources that already support what they think anyway, like how republicans watch fox news and democrats love the ny times.)</p>