Someone has to die in a war, why not the poor?

[ck4829]

"U.S. soldiers who die in Iraq knew they would. Most of them couldn't get a decent job in the private sector anyway, so what does it matter? Someone has to die in a war, why not the poor?"
- Ann Coulter

http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026659.php

[Sequoia]

1. After Nov 7 you might be out of a job and poor...so yes..go fight.

[photogirl12]

2. Everyday

I realize more and more how cold and heartless Ann Coulter is!

[sui generis]

3. oddly, this is not Breaking Headline News on CNN

You know what Kerry SHOULD have done is quoted Coulter, loud and proud, no joke.

And he should have also said this woman represents the mainstream of the republican party's feelings about economics, social issues, poverty, education, constitutional freedoms and the war.

[razors edge]

4. The whole issue reminds me of

Joe Bageant't Revenge of the Mutt People.

snip

About half of the Americans killed in Iraq come from communities like Winchester, Virginia or Romney, West Virginia or Fisher, Illinois or Kilgore, Texas or ... About forty-five percent of the American dead in Iraq come from communities of less than 40,000, even though these towns make up only twenty-five percent of our population. These so-called volunteers are part of this nation's de facto draft -- economic conscription -- the carrot being politically preferable to the whip. The carrot does not have to be very big out here where delivering frozen food wholesale to restaurants out of your own car entirely on commission is considered a good self-employment opportunity. I’m serious. One of my sons did it for a couple of months.

Once you grasp the implications of such an environment regarding the so-called American Dream, the U.S. Army at thirteen hundred bucks a month, a signing bonus and free room and board begin to look pretty good. Even a nice long ass kicking tour of the tropics killing brown guys becomes attractive. Especially compared to competing with other little brown guys at home, humping “big-roll sod” across ever-expanding MacMansionland. In the process, we mutt people learn worldly lessons that the post graduate set raving about the jobless economy cannot know. For instance we know firsthand that there is no way to beat little brown sod balling guys willing to sleep in their cars and live on canned beans and store brand soda. Better to go “volunteer” for the Army.

http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2006/01/revenge_of_the_.html