TO DO: Spend Time with your draft-age child or grandchild.

“Would you sacrifice your child to secure Fallujah?”

This brilliant question was posed by Michael Moore on numerous TV appearances before the election, but seems to be getting a lot of airplay on the rerun circuit. The most recent of which was a couple nights ago on Conan O’Brian. For a moment, hundreds must have been waiting for Conan to do his trademark hair flip and blurt out “HUUUH!” But instead he shook his head like Moore made all the sense in the world.

Apparently, Conan wouldn’t sacrifice his son.

It is interesting though, that despite being informed by Bill O’Reilly that the days of parents sacrificing their children are over in America, Moore stuck to his perverted logic. In fact, I can’t recall an instance since Vietnam (a Democrat war) where parents were required to offer up their children to either Rumplestiltskin or the United States government.

The United States Army is an all-volunteer Army, and there’s a reason for it. They don’t want whiny boys gumming up the works in the middle of a war zone. The battlefield is for men and now also for courageous women, and they weren’t sacrificed by their parents on an altar; they signed up. Many people, including Moore, argue that the Reserves and the National Guard didn’t sign up for this. What did they think they were signing up for, knitting classes? Marching lessons? You can’t be “sent without consent” when you join the military; consent is implied. When you say the oath and give your first salute and put pen to paper for a tour, you are saying, “Wherever I am needed by my country, I will go.”

Before the election and even now, the media and certain members of Congress are keeping up the gambit on the draft. Congressman Charles Wrangle, a New York Democrat, thought it would be a great idea to have a draft and produced a bill that would’ve had little Johnny trading in his short pants for fatigues right out of high school. But with the old Democrat stick-to-it-iveness and dedication to national defense, he voted against his own brainchild (H.R.163), which he wrote back in 2003.

Apparently, he was unwilling to sacrifice his son to secure Fallujah too.

Yet, amazingly while all these people seem unwilling to sacrifice their own children, many continue to demand more troops in Iraq. The thinking seems to be thus: I don’t want to send my son to Iraq, but Donald Rumsfeld should be fired for not putting more troops in Iraq. (Remember when Kerry promised two new divisions and 40,000 new special forces soldiers? I don’t recall seeing Vanessa trying on green berets.)

A more brilliant strategem cannot be conceived. Democrats, who secretly profess their anti-war beliefs, but who were quick to record their votes in favor of the war, have a great way out … blame it all on Rumsfeld! The war would’ve been over in a week if Rumsfeld had put enough boots on the ground! Our boys wouldn’t be getting killed if Rumsfeld would’ve armored the Humvees! We’re in this mess because of Rummy’s theory of a light and fast army!

Maureen Dowd of The New York Times had this to say recently: “The dreams of Rummy and the neocons were bound to collide. But it’s immoral to trap our troops in a guerrilla war without essential, lifesaving support and matériel just so a bunch of officials who have never been in a war can test their theories.”

However, while everyone is calling for Rumsfeld’s head, it might be nice to know who actually decides military budgets to pay for things like armored humvees and bullet-proof flack jackets. Any guesses, anyone? CONGRESS! The Secretary of Defense, along with the President of the United States each submits a budget to Congress, both of which usually go straight down the garbage-hole. Many of the politicians now crying about the war effort were precisely the ones voting down the military spending during the Clinton years. John Kerry nearly got away with voting to go to war without backing up his vote with the bucks. We should be examining the records of other “nay-sayers” in the same way. So the next time someone says “Whoa is us, it’s all Rummy’s fault,” tell them this isn’t Rummy’s war, Rummy wasn’t around to vote all the equipment spending down. Tell them this is Congress’ War.