[Damn True]

..........that the GOP wants to require mandatory military service.

If that's true, what is this all about?

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR00163:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2004/roll494.xml

 

[Toshi]

it was introduced as a protest, to point out the hypocrisy of the chickenhawks, whose children most definitely do not serve in the military -- in the theory of this protest the bill would force even those rich kids to shoulder a rifle.

 

[Skookum]

hey i noticed that Bono voted against the bill. Cool i didn't know he was in the Senate....