I've heard the arguments - young people aren't protesting the war like they did for Vietnam because there was the draft. Good point. Hard to argue with that. As altruistic as we all claim to be, when it comes to self-preservation, we fat-assed Americans will bitch and moan.

It sure would be cool if our youngsters would get off their asses more now, though there are people who are doing stuff.

But this goes for us older older folks as well. Many of us aren't doing or saying shit. Then something like this goes down.

Now, I feel for these folks, I really do. But it is ironically funny that when they're faced with having to go to Iraq, they freak out. But when they had their safe State Department jobs, they wouldn't speak out against Da Man. And the SD guy using slavery as an argument...whoa nellie!