Posted on 08/28/2005 2:41:12 PM PDT by Crackingham
It's a question from the press sure to be posed more and more as the months go on, directed at public officials who continue to support the Iraq war: If you believe in the cause so deeply, why aren't your own kids signing up? Most prominently, President Bush (through his press spokesmen) is now hearing it, but it's now trickling down to the congressional and state level.
Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, a strong backer of Bush policy in Iraq -- who has give sons age 24 to 35 -- heard the query yesterday, from a Boston Herald reporter. Romney, who has promoted National Guard recruitment, replied, a bit angrily, that he has not urged his own sons to enlist -- and isn't sure whether they would.
The Herald tossed the question as Romney as he was honored by the Massachusetts National Guard. "No, I have not urged my own children to enlist. I don't know the status of my childrens' potentially enlisting in the Guard and Reserve," Romney said, his voice tinged with anger, the Herald reported.
Neither the Romney children nor the governor have served in the military, a Romney spokeswoman said.
More than 1,100 guardsmen and women from Massachusetts are currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, with 28 Massachusetts soldiers killed so far.
"I don't think you should be so 'rah-rah' for a war that you aren't willing to send your own family members to," Rose Gonzalez of Somerville, whose mother, a state employee, was deployed to Iraq in January, told the Herald. "If he thinks the war is so just and so important and we shouldn't pull out, then he should encourage his own sons to go."
Nancy Lessin, a spokeswoman for Military Families Speak Out, said, "This is just one more politician who is willing to risk the lives of our loved ones and celebrate sending them off into a war that we never should have [been] in."
I hope someone will ask the press if they will send their own kids to betray the USA...
Elected officials themselves have a higher rate of service.
Why involve their (GROWN) "children".
Would that include Chelsea Clinton? Afterall, her "mom" voted for the war.......
Many of them HAVE kids, or actually, I'll say "offspring" because they're adults, at war.
That was in "F 9/11." Michael Moore asks a Republican politician if he'll send his loved ones to die in Iraq, and he says, "I do have nephews serving in Iraq." Moore cut the response out of the movie, and all you see is the question asked, and before the guy answers, cut to the next scene.
Rose, you moron. This is America, you don't get to send your family members to war. That whole freedom thing means they get to decide on their own if they want to join the military.
What morons.
Rose, you ignorant misguided dunce.
Stupid press, it's the kid's decision, not their parents.
If the liberal elites believe in progressive taxation, why do they use tax shelters and accountants to keep from paying their "fair share"?
This came up briefly in the campaign when people realized how little the Heinz-Kerrys paid.
Isn't that redundant?
What about the Heinz boy? You know... the 'pretty' one who was so active for Kerry.
We should force Chelsea dogface into fatigues, maybe that will teach that spoiled little brat some values and maybe then, she will cut off ties with BJ Klintoon.
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In point of fact, no one sends their kids to Iraq. Those serving are all volunteers and adults. This drives the liberals nuts, which is why they constantly bring up reinstituting the draft.
My son is neither a policeman nor fireman, but I certainly support them.
Let's ask the pro-abortion reporters if they wish their parents would have aborted them.
Exactly! When our children become adults, they are the ones who ultimately decide what it is they want to do. I would no more insist my child go to college and become a doctor, than I would insist that my child join the military. When our son chose to join the military, we supported his decision, but the decision was HIS.
Apparently, Rose Gonzalez believes that the children of politicians do not have the same rights as those whose parents are not politicians. How absurd!
Why, that's `Journalism 101': public figure with whom you don't agree (in your role as a fair and impartial journalist)?
'Posion the water' with an ad hominem attack . . .
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