The W is for Warmonger

Just got off the phone with my brother, Jake. He's being "recalled" and going to Iraq at the end of the month.

"What? But you said the recall didn't apply to you!"

It didn't. Well, it didn't use to. After leaving the army, he did two years of National Guard and that completed his duty. And all that was two years ago and the recall only applied to people just getting out of the National Guard.

It seems a law was just passed that revoked any time new recruits did in the reserve, before they started their tour of duty. Like my brother, who enlisted when he was 17, did bootcamp over the summer, returned to finish high school, was in the reserve his last year of high school, and then went off to the Army after graduation. Thanks to this new law, that time in the reserve doesn't count and suddenly he "owes" the Army time.

Tell me it's not a draft.

He's leaving behind a 18 month old son, a one month old daughter, and a wife of less than six months. Jake said the worst thing was that his kids would forget him.

The worst thing is he might not come back.

I have nothing but contempt for the warmonger in the oval office.