I too have sons who are draft eligible. I sat them down in 1999 and said to them that I would personally send them to Canada if they were drafted for Kosovo. It is amazing to me that there was no oppositon in the liberal press to Mr. Clinton's abuse of our armed forces and the Yugoslavian civilian population in the Kosovo war. And all of our suddenly yellow Senators and Congressmen kept their mouths shut when we started the Kosovo war without provocation or reason, and ignored those of us who reminded them that after 60 days, Slick Willie once again defied law, under the War Powers Act, by not declaring war or removing the troops absent that, as he was bound to do.
After Sept. 11th, 2001, and losing three people on the ground and in the air, I sat my sons down again and told them that there are things were fighting for and things worth dying for. Our country is one of them,it was attacked, and if they were drafted for a war to defend this country, my expectation was that they should do go and do their duty with all their heart. I told them that if the US would take me in their place, I would gladly go, and still would.
Kosovo was an abomination, and everyone kept their mouths shut; Saddam Hussein is a madman who should have been removed in 1991 from power, and now all of this chicken livered voices are demanding "proof".
Well, I'm not waiting for the second terrorist attack on American soil. Take out Hussein, and tell Iran, Syria, North Korea and Saudi Arabia, that their fate hangs in the balance if they don't round up the terrorists. Enough pussyfooting around! And if the Europeans won't help us, the hell with them. Afterwards, if they don't help, I'd tell 'em to get lost. The world doesn't like us, fine. But we have to do what is right for us. And what's right for us it to take out Hussein. Sooner, and not later. Handwringing time is long over.