Rethuglican Chickenhawks Patriotism-lite

Poor and middle-class kids should stop fighting the wars of the rich. Go send your own kids to steal your oil. An extra $100 billion a year on the pentagon budget since 2002 and an extra $250+ billion for Iraq. That's $550 billion we could have spent on investing in America or just not going into debt.

From the Post-Gazette
August 11, 2005
Staff Sgt. Jason Rivera, 26, a Marine recruiter in Pittsburgh, went to the home of a high school student who had expressed interest in joining the Marine Reserve to talk to his parents. It was a large home in a well-to-do suburb north of the city. Two American flags adorned the yard. The prospect's mom greeted him wearing an American flag T-shirt. "I want you to know we support you," she gushed.

Rivera soon reached the limits of her support.

"Military service isn't for our son. It isn't for our kind of people," she told him.