Posted on 07/22/2005 2:22:03 PM PDT by texas_mrs
Good for them!!!
Why don't they just pool their resources and head for Bagdad. The Iraqi military may not be so particular.
Oh, yes, I'd like to join as well, but I want to be at least a colonel.
Call their bluff... Slap them in uniform and send them to Iraq (in a non combat capacity - perhaps they can bake cookies for the troops over there).
They are wasting the time of everyone involved, and are only doing so as a protest against the war.
My interpretation of this story is that they are not doing this because they are patriotic and want to fight for their country. They are doing it "so our young people don't have to die in this war".
They are crazy old liberal harpies, and I spit on them. Pa-toowie.
they want to go to Iraq so they're grandkids can be sent home? Sounds like a leftist tactic
What don't they get...? They are too old for enlisting. If they really want to help why not get some kind of network going in sending supplies to the troops already over there. Now that is Grandmas work.
I hope they're charged the maximum they can be charged for taking their little anti-war protest to the recruiter's office.
They're idiots!
I read the headline and first few sentences only about these grannies. If they are anti-war, and this is their tactic, then I take back every nice thing I said about them. LOL
My gran who died last year was all in favour of killing the terrorists. I could imagine her whacking Mustafa or Abdul over the head with a broom. The same spirit is on your side of the Atlantic.
Regards, Ivan
These aren't patriotic grandmothers, they're Dem/commy/lib protesters and disrupters.
Go Grannies, Go staight to jail, do not pass go.
The name of their group is pathetic too.
I hereby rename them The "Raging Pathetic Grannies," or RPGs.
Cripe! Give them a gun and put them on the border!
I dunno ... wanting to go to Iraq so their kids and grandkids can stay home sounds more like an antiwar protest to me. The article isn't exactly clear on this point given what the army's spokesbabe said, "people who disagree with the war should be contacting their legislators instead of bothering recruiters."
lol
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