A common theme that I have noticed recently is that Pres. Bush owes the parents explanations, especially one pertaining to when their sons/daughters will be coming home.
Mayor Manhood, Columbus mayor, expressed that line of thought regarding his own son who is in Iraq. Of course, this theme is just another way of asserting that the war in Iraq is wrong.
This is something I don't understand. If you have a son or daughter, who enlists, it is wrong to say they were a stupid tool.
This woman acts like her son was an idiot. He was of age, he enlisted, he reenlisted, he volunteered for this duty. What does it say of her mothering that she thinks at his age he was too stupid to make these decisions for himself? Was he still a 10 year old in her eyes?
My cousin's children enlisted against her wishes. (She lost family already in war, she knows what it is) She cried a little, for mothers worry, but she would NEVER insinuate they were so stupid they couldn't make this decision for themselves.
And if, God forbid, anything happens to them, she won't run around screaming at the president like he ran over her 5 year old in the street.