Protecting your children from Republican wars

[Brand New Tico]

I'm a veteran of the U.S. Army. Honorably Discharged. Never AWOL or suspended from my duties. I loved this country enough to volunteer as my forefathers did to lay my life down for it.

But for the last four years, I have been seriously worried about Bush getting another term - so much so that I began to consider a method that would allow me to shield my two sons from the right wingers who would want to darft them into the military. I cannot imagine doing nothing as my sons are drafted to go and die in a neocon war of choice over oil profits. I cannot imagine anyone allowing their child to go and die for George W. Bush. For nothing - Absolutely nothing.

Who knew that my fears would be confirmed in spades?

So I cashed in a retirement account and bought a small farm house in Costa Rica last year. Then I applied for residency for myself, my wife, and my sons. We just got the papers today.

Now my sons will be out of the reach of the fundamentalists. When they turn 18, they will be at our house in Costa Rica, and they will not register with Selective Service. They will not serve in this immoral military. They want to leave and to stay until they are 26, when they are no longer eligible, and it is my privilege to allow them to do so. This right wing government will NEVER take my sons to die in a pathetic guerrilla war waged over oil.

My worst nightmare is that Rick Santorum (who desperately wants it) will win another 51-49 election in 2008. Then, if they don't close the borders, I will be gone in one day. If they do, I will escape - Soviet Style.

If you have children who will come of age in the near future, protect your children! Don't let them be taken by this evil government. Protect them from what's coming. I never imagined my fears would come true, but they have - and it's worse than I ever thought.

[sui generis]

1. is there still a conscientious objector status?

don't know much about it or how it works/worked.

[Vincardog]

3. get yourself on a draft board. Then you can decide who gets CO status

not the old fat Republicans who would otherwise be there.

[atreides1]

10. Not totally true

There are pre-requisites that have to be met before CO status is conferred on a inductee.

[annabanana]

11. check this out for CO info...

There are several useful hints here for qualifying for CO status (assuming, of course, that the rules aren't drastically changed)

http://www.objector.org/

[sui generis]

17. I guess my kids just have to be "out and proud" !!

Don't ask, and they won't tell. Ask them and they might lie.

As for me I'm very well preserved but too dang old.

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[Brand New Tico]

4. Wait till President Santorum takes the oath

I'll not be here to remind you of your comments, but I respect your right to hold your opinion.

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[Vincardog]

5. treason NOT resist the evil in control of OUR government at every turn.,

STOP THE FASCISTs.

[MissMarple]

6. A draft of some kind is still a concern.

If something happens to draw us into more conflict, with North Korea or Iran being most likely, and we are still involved occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, we well may need a draft.

[auburngrad82]

7. I hope you're not draft age. n/t

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

8. There's already serious talk of a skills draft

for doctors, computer programmers, and others with knowledge and skills that would be useful to the military.

The one thing the past four years have taught me, is not to put anything past the bush administration.

[annabanana]

9. Just where are the bodies going to come from...

to maintain perpetual police presence in Iraq (for the security of the oil industry)?

Forgive me if I don't believe this and see here:

http://homepage.mac.com/duffyb/nobush/iMovieTheater233.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Keep deluding yourself

When the draft comes I will help you pack your bags and push you out the door

Left, left, left, right left,

Left, left, left, right left

You will love the miliary CHICKEN HAWK

First wicket

SSS fully staffed

Second wicket

Schools now making sure lists for SSS are up to date

Third wicket

Drug laws are out, judge gave a man a choice, jail or army

THey are right on track for it, and they have recalled many a DI... but please do nto take my word for it

YOU VOTED for it... or you would not be here telling us that there will not be

Oh and The Freudian slip in a speech, "there will not be a volunteer army."

[earthside]

13. Pretty funny

"There will be no draft."

Yeah ... And we're going to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and there's a link between Saddam and al Qaida, and Iraqi oil will pay for the invasion, and US troops will be greeted with flowers and candy, and on and on.

Tell us another one.

How many Bush lies will you believe?

What is really "so sad" is that the biggest traitor in America right now sits in the Oval Office ... a liar who will eagerly steal two national elections for himself and orders troops to commit war crimes. Attacking a sovereign nation without provocation is a war crime, Abu Ghraib was a war crime ... and frankly, any US soldier that carries out those illegal and immoral orders in complicit in committing war crimes.

[Lerkfish]

16. muwahahahahaha!

keep living in your dream world.

btw: welcome to DU, enjoy your short stay!