If government officials want war, shouldnt their children go?
411842
Mr. Bush !\n\nI wish some one sees it and conveys it to you.\nThat is how your people think about legality of this war.
135224
Personally, no war can be considered justified. Common citizens of rival countries usually don't have any real reason to kill each other. Their governments make them think there is a reason.
324661
No, the military is by choice right now.  Now, if the draft comes around, (pray it doesn't) if they have anything to do with their kids not going, throw them out of office right then.
273729
No. To assume that young people cannot control themselves is to overlook the fact that most of them probably can, and to let underfunded police and bad parents off the hook. It succumbs to the people who get nervous because they believe stories they got told. The people who got lied to get what they want, and people who didn't do anything get kicked off the street for nothing other than being young.\n\nAnd, no, because if you give governments an inch, they will take a mile.
698227
I think that many children are starting to sit up and take notice because things are not the same as they were six years ago. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins going to Iraq. Soldiers being killed on what seems to be a daily basis. These aren't things that will escape their notice. Unfortunately, with the current administration, the age of childhood innocence isn't what it used to be.
12498
Bush does not want the war to end.  It would be the end of corporate welfare for Haliburton and other companies.  So my kids will have to avoid going to fight in this senseless and illegal war.  They are 1 and 3
925080
It was a way of making a point, Though this certain person has brought up the subject before, it is a way to deter Republicans from going to war by making it a possibility for those who come from all sorts of backgrounds be it rich or poor have to go fight as well. . Meaning Senators and Congressman's children to have to go no matter what. Well that's what i got from this news article. Read it and make your own opinion :)
653656
Having been drafted and sent to Viet Nam, I would hope and pray the this nation never will resort to drafting it's young people to go off and get slaughtered again.  If you want to join the military that's fine but you shouldn't be forced to unless it really is necessary to protect the nation.  The last time that happened was during WWII.  I believe if our politicians want to send young people off the war they should first make sure all of their relatives are the first to go into battle.  If that was the case we'd never have to use our military again.
1158812
If you include morality, then at least the people who live in the country at war are citizens of that country.  The government is representative of their interests, and the decision to fight a war should be based on preservation of a societal order from which they benefit.\n\n(I know sometimes governments are run by tyrants and thugs who are not representative of the people and who do not provide for much societal benefit, but that is not the case in most countries).\n\nWith gangs, the gangs do not claim to be representative of their neighborhoods.  They do not provide for the social benefit of the people who live in the community, rather, they provide for the social and economic good of the gangsters.  Unlike governments, gangs do not build hospitals or schools to help communities. \n\nNo one has given 'turf' to a gang.  Real estate is owned either by a city or by private individuals.  Gangs rarely sell drugs on land they own, but rather land they 'claim' to be theirs (often by marking on it with graffiti).  \n\nWhat they are trying to do in claiming turf is establish a monopoly on the drug trade in a particular neighborhood.  This would be like Wal-Mart declaring an area around the store a 'turf', and then attacking the operations of KMart, Target or anyone else who is 'invading their turf'.\n\nThe two are not the same.
411520
The job is not as important of a factor as what kind of parent they are.  I know messed up military kids because the parents hate the schools and pull them out to homeschool everywhere they live, and I know some well-adjusted disciplined military kids.  I know of similar situations with civilian parents also.
23863
Actually, wouldn't you think if they stayed at home with their families that that would be more selfish? It's very noble that they are fighting for their country. Whether or not they're fighting for a stupid cause, that's a different topic. The fact they're willing to lay down their lives is unselfish.
616135
Actually Govt. Dont want to do so...
866514
they support the war as long as poor minoritys fight it, as soon it involves there own kids and loved ones dieing they don't want to anymore, so yeah i guess that would equate to being a cowrad
233580
Yes we should, our "kids" are getting killed over there and for what?......it's NOT worth it.
888817
Who is targeting children? and in what war?
128695
They are producing children for the next draft.As a veteran I think a mandatory service obligation in everyones future or past would give their opinions a little more creedance instead of analyzing a game they will never play in.
682952
No. I think that's a horrible idea. We want military troops who are Americans and are willing to die for their own country, not forced or coerced...that would not only mean they wouldn't do a good job for us, but it would be another thing for them to cry about..."My son went to war for you...so now you have to let all fifty of his closest relatives in for free and in the front of the line!" \nNO THANKS!