A friend of mine still vehemently supports the war in Iraq, saying Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Okay, we won't even argue that one, but...
...she has two sons, and when asked if she would support a draft, she said if her sons were drafted they'd move to Canada. Her reasoning? The American soldiers in Iraq knew what they were getting into when they signed up.
The majority of the personnel in our armed forces are poor and people of color. And my well-to-do white friend is saying that their lives are less valuable than her children's lives, and they should lay down their lives to protect her two gorgeous little white angels.
And that, my friends, is the self-centered, entitled, white upper-middle class shouting from the mountaintops.
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