Notes for Future Veterans:
Assuming we DO go to war in Iraq, what skylarking world of wonder have we promised our victorious veterans?
1.) A zip-lipped snitch named Miguel Estrada is awarded a Federal Judgeship. Moreover, a notorious narc for massacre-advocate Anne Coulter, Estrada is on the short list for a seat on the Supreme Court.
2.) Grandma and Grandpa will be forced to choose by a beneficent Government between their Medicare coverage and a threadbare prescription drug benefit.
3.) Meanwhile the Attorney General will still be reading your mail, cataloguing your e-mail, compiling lists of the videos you rent, and no doubt seizing excrement samples for forcible analysis.
That is if you are not already in jail for buying a bong on line....
4.) Oh...and your Boss? She or he will be ludicrously over capitalized thanks to relentless tax cuts. In effect they will join a new unprecedented class of wealthy tax exempt GOP clients and social deadbeats.
5.) The one trillion dollar cost of the war you won will be paid for by you, your progeny, and possibly their offspring as well.
6.) Whoops almost forgot to mention, a white power activist named Mike Savage now has a talk show on MSNBC. Boy when Grand-dad was drafted back in 1942 creepy tinpot stormtroopers like Mike were treated as the brutes and buffoons they were. But it's a new era in 2003 and those selfsame falangists can look forward lucrative careers on cable television.
Frankly, in some ways, you guys are a lot safer over there than we are back here at home...all you have to do is topple Saddam....we've got to deal with freakjob hammerheads like Coulter, Savage, Will, Limbaugh, Severin, Hannity, Carlson, etc etc etc...
:)