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dear president bush,

Michael considered fate at 13:06   |   Permalink   |   Post a Comment

i think what tony wrote to you is wrong. dead wrong.

in general i agree with his liberal cub-loving politics but in this iraq thing i think he is wrong. i think this vietnam in the iraqi desert that you have started could be just what this country needs to completely fix everything that you have fucked up in your four short years in the white house. i have four words for you mr. president, four short words: bring back the draft.

bring back the draft with full force and no gimmies or skip-outs or beating the system. even better, draft women. draft britney spears and throw her in jail for trying to avoid the draft. hard-nosed no-holds-barred politics here.

because when you bring back the draft - after i move to my other country of citizenship canada - middle-america mom and middle-america pop will become outraged that their kid is going to war. far more outraged than how outraged they are right now about the poor kid on the wrong side of the tracks going to war. which is not outraged at all.

because when mr senator's fresh-faced alcoholic daughter of 18 who always gets out of DUIs because her daddy is a senator's daughter gets drafted because you are going no-holds-barred hard-nosed politics.. well shit will fly and the people will stand up and speak.

okay, maybe mr. senator's daughter will never get drafted by you, mr. president because you are a two-faced lying sack of shit and the poor hispanics and blacks and trailer-trash whites of america is exactly who you want fighting your war so that your sons and daughters can keep their white church clothes clean and blood free. but when you start drafting john doe's 19 year old sons middle-america will get up, stand up, not give up the fight. middle-america will stand up next to the tree-huggers and hippies, forget that they hate stoners, forget that they dislike disestablishmentarians, and fight (with words, my friend like honest people - like any normal sane person - you try to settle things verbally first - take a page out of the democratic people's book - you have heard of democracy haven't you?). they'll say this war is not for us. once, when our sons were not getting bullets and suicide bombs thrown in their direction, we didn't mind the war so much because we were scared. once, when we thought gas was a tad pricey and we thought planes might be becoming crashed into us. but now, now that we have purchased $2 gasoline for our SUVs, now that we continue to buy our SUVs regardless of that price, now that we realize it's not really that bad, what's another 25 cents? - well, now this war isn't for us.. not if it means my son comes home in a body bag. not if it means my son comes home with nightmares and general malaise and can't hold down a job and lives in our basement till he is 35 (even though, come to think of it, he was doing that before the draft). that's what middle-america will say, mr. president.

so please. stand up to this. re-instate the draft. please. just this once, mr. president, do something right for this country that perhaps.. just maybe.. if i'm counting my eggs right.. will make up for four years of horrendous misjudgment and egregious spending.

please?

and then lose in the next election. thanks.

sincerely,
your pal,

michael