George,

I am tired of bellicose twinkies nattering about "staying the course." How tough do you have to stay the course if you, your children or almost everybody you know is not going to be exposed to combat or even inconvenience?

Would President War Boy urge "Bring it on" if his twin daughters (Fritzi and Mitzi? Wendy and Mindy?) were in a Bradley IFV cautiously poking down Haifa Street in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad. Not bloody likely!

I do not believe we militarily need to draft our youth yet. We morally need a draft to hold U.S. middle-class youth hostage to prevent the foolish military adventurism of War Boy and "Five Deferment Dickey" Cheney.

Ham Caldwell (electronic mail, September 14, 2004)