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> Long Line of Chickenhawks
> Cindy Sheehan
>
> An anti-war activist at a town hall meeting in Iowa
> recently asked Mitt Romney why not ONE of his five
> sons served the USA in the military. The woman's
> brother had been in Iraq and she understandably would
> have liked to know if the Romney family was so
> supportive of BushCo's war of terror why didn't they
> support it with their own flesh and blood.
>
> Mitt Romney said that his five privileged elite
> stockbroker/real estate boys are supporting our nation
> by helping get their father "elected." We could
> dispute the allegation of how getting a pandering,
> war-mongering, born-again abortion foe elected is good
> for our country, but that's not the point. The point
> is the ruling class elite who don't have to worry
> about health-care, jobs, or how they are going to pay
> for their children's college tuition send our children
> to fight and die in their wars that only make them
> richer while sending working-class families into life
> times of despair.
>
> 58,000 mothers and 58,000 fathers (many of whose
> children were drafted, but not all) found out how
> being part of the lower classes during Vietnam was
> detrimental to your family and thousands of vets from
> Vietnam are still fighting for physical and mental
> health benefits from a government who sent them off to
> a immoral war. Almost twice as many Vietnam Vets have
> killed themselves as were killed there; and the
> biggest percentage of our nation's scandalous homeless
> problem are Veterans. Almost 4,000 mothers are feeling
> the same despair from Iraq...and already we are seeing
> Iraq War veterans on the streets and commiting
> suicide. Somehow I don't think electing Mitt Romney
> will help to alleviate any of this suffering.
>
> In the true chickenhawk tradition, Mitt Romney, did
> not go to Vietnam. He was doing Mormon "missionary"
> work: whatever that means. I guess he could have been
> in a hot, steamy, jungle fighting fear, fatigue,
> death, and boredom while trying to score heroin, but
> somehow I feel that is not the case. When I was youth
> minister at St. Mary's in Vacaville, I had many Mormon
> missionaries bike into my office to try and save me
> from the sin of "Catholicism." Honestly, the
> Republican chickenhawks should get together and form a
> club and laugh about how they avoided Vietnam and how
> their children don't have to go to Iraq so their
> daddies and granddaddies can't grease the war machine
> with their own flesh and blood.
>
> Romney also stated that we have an "all volunteer"
> Army and it was going to "stay that way".you bet it
> is! Because then all the chickenhawks can absolve
> themselves from the fact that they supported a nasty
> war where people are being killed unnecessarily by
> screaming: "Your son volunteered." Also the concept of
> a "professional Army" is an imperialistic trick to
> keep the ordinary citizen far away from the sacrifice
> and keep them just anesthetized enough to not get
> outraged and actually do something about it.
>
> I have talked to college Republicans and young people
> who have come to my events to yell obscene things at
> me and I have asked them why, if they support George
> and his war for profit, don't they go to the nearest
> recruiter's office and enlist. Their answers are a lot
> like Romney's. They are serving their country by going
> to college so they can own businesses that will
> "employ" the returning vets. Or, they are "serving"
> their country by protesting me.
>
> Many of our young people, especially people of color,
> don't have a lot of options to get jobs, educations,
> or out of their dangerous communities (isn't it
> ironic) they join the military. As for Casey, I would
> rather have him be flipping burgers in Vacaville, then
> dead, but he felt he had to join the Army to take the
> pressure off of our family for college. It is a tragic
> trade.
>
> If Romney's children have the option of serving our
> nation by riding around in RV's and writing blogs,
> then all of our children should have that option. For
> our lower-socio economic children, working for the
> candidate of their choice should come with a
> $20,000.00 bonus and college tuition credits.
>
> If the wealthy elite doesn't have to worry about
> sending their children to college, then all of our
> children who want to and quality should be able to go
> to college for little or no tuition. They should not
> have to trade their lives or physical or mental health
> for a degree. We need to bring our tax dollars home
> from Iraq and our manufacturing jobs back from
> overseas to give our young people more options.
>
> It's time to start talking about the poverty draft and
> how the ruling class fascists get to protect their
> children to the detriment of our children.
>
> I don't think military service should be a requirement
> to be the President, but a hypocrite is a hypocrite. If
> a candidate supports this war, or future wars, I say
> send your own child. That would prove you are serious
> when you say my son died for a "noble cause."
>
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