How to stop your kid from joining the armed forces on Bush's watch

[tk2kewl]

After reading annerevere's post, I began to wonder if there was a resource that parents could turn to for help dissuading their kids from signing up to fight in bushCo's illegal war.

I took a look around the Veterans for Peace site (www.veteransforpeace.org) and found this...
Recruitment Education

Is that the purpose of this list? If so it looks like a great resource for parents.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I am glad my kids are still tiny.. but they are only 10 and 12 years away

from being targeted by the armed forces, and I have fears that ** has created a mess that could very well drag on that long.

[Arugula Latte]

2. Mine too.

We've already decided we will do whatever it takes -- and I mean whatever -- to keep our kids out of the military.

When the military is used 95 percent of the time to sacrifice young lives to advance U.S. corporate interests, it's time to say "No more."

Then, when we do get attacked, we hardly put any resources into getting the "real killers," and then go slaughter another country.

Go figure.

My kids will NOT be a part of such an institution.

[Talismom]

3. Same here! My 7 yr old twins read DU and the Nation with me

and we discuss the political situation. They're asked me if they will have to go to Iraq and we have told them that they will never have to do what they don't believe in doing. They know we will help them with it!

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. I have told mine I want them to grow up to be scientists.. that if they

can invent Star Trek Replicators we won't have to have any more starving or homeless people...and maybe no more wars either.

/end pipe dream

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. My friend said the other day

(only halfway joking)

That she was going to take her son to a protest and make SURE he got arrested so he'd have a felony on his record.

Another person the other day was saying something here about the service not taking kids who had too many tattoos? Not sure if it's true, but I'd go get my kid to have freaking snakes all over his back if that's the case.

FSC

[SnowGoose]

6. Recruiters were helping kids cheat the drug tests...

I find it hard to believe they'd turn a prospect away if they had "I love satan" tattooed across their forehead.

[samdogmom]

7. You're right about the tattoo limit...for now I think it's 5 or 7...

But like the age limit, etc. I'm sure it can be easily changed once things get a bit more desperate.

[kenny blankenship]

8. I don't understand something

Legally, parents have to be consulted and have to approve if their kids need an abortion, but apparently they can't intervene between Uncle Sam's death machine and their children?

[tk2kewl]

9. I think you need to be 18 to enlist

and I think once you are 18 the other consent issues are moot as well