This reminds me of Michael Moore's movie Farenheit 9/11, when he stands on the street asking members of congress to sign up their kids for a tour in Iraq. The astonished look on their faces was priceless. Something like - "are you kidding me?"
BOB HERBERT of the New York Times New York Times writes:
| "College kids in the U.S. are playing video games and looking forward to frat parties while their less fortunate peers are rattling around like moving targets in Baghdad and Mosul, trying to dodge improvised explosive devices and rocket-propelled grenades. There is something very, very wrong with this picture. If the war in Iraq is worth fighting - if it's a noble venture, as the hawks insist it is - then it's worth fighting with the children of the privileged classes. They should be added to the combat mix. If it's not worth their blood, then we should bring the other troops home. If Mr. Bush's war in Iraq is worth dying for, then the children of the privileged should be doing some of the dying." |
He makes a point don't you think?
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