War vs Iran=Canada

[SoFlaJet]

I have a son that turned 13 last week and all I've been thinking about is the possibility of in 5 years having to move us to Canada to avoid him having to go to a war started by a friggin IDIOT bent on accelerating the end times at the cost of MY son's life.Scary........

[Warpy]

1. You might want to think in terms of a university education in

Europe. Canada is far too close for comfort and the SSS can possibly get him there.

[SoFlaJet]

4. Not a bad thought

I've always wanted to go to Europe-as a musician I have heard I would be appreciated there too...

[Realityhack]

2. Your question assumes

that * and co will not have managed to end the world between now and then.

[DIKB]

3. Anyone else

feel like raising chickens in a low-populated stretch of Mexican desert?

[valerief]

7. Not with the bird flu on its way. n/t

[Kutjara]

5. Well...

...when the current phony war about immigrants overrunning the US moves into second gear, the Republicans will be claiming that our manifest destiny requries additional lebensraum (oops, slipped into German there for some reason; I meant "living space" of course) and that Canada would make a dandy 51st State. After all, there's hardly anyone living there and they're pretty much the same as them evil French anyway.

The only place you're likely to be safe is somewhere that:

(1) No US American would want to live there;
(2) No resources considered 'strategic' to the USA are located there;
(3) No government antipathetic to the USA rules there;

May I suggest Iceland? Kapingamarangi Island? The North Pole?

[Tesha]

16. Isn't Iceland in the fallout plumes from many major American former cities

[FloridaPat]

6. Check into countries that don't have a "return policy" with the US

for draft evaders. There are good reason why folks went to Canada during the Vietnam war and not other places.

[proud patriot]

9. I believe that has changed for Canada though

just reccently I might add

[FloridaPat]

13. That's what I thought, but soldiers are still going there seeking asylum.

Hope they get to stay there.

[Telly Savalas]

14. Yeah, the last Liberal government established the policy

of not accepting war-evaders, and I don't really see the present Conservative government reversing this.

[applegrove]

8. Peace to you. You may want to wait until after the elections 2006

before you put any plans in action. Living far don't get chased out of your own dam life. If you can help it. I know it is hard. Grief the loss for now of the place called home and live to find new meaning & love of your country. Grieving helps.

Plus you have to pace yourself. Plant a garden. Mentor a kid. Volunteer. Nobody can live on a diet of the harshness that is the news these days without some perspective. I you are young.. you need the perspective from some outside source more than anyone else.

People are good. You have bad luck right now in your country. Cry. Grieve. And have some balance. Take care of you & yours.

[WestSeattle2]

10. Can he join the Texas Air National Guard?......n/t

[SoFlaJet]

11. LOL

good one

[cyberpj]

12. No worries. Blackwater w/most likely fight AND make corp profits. nt

[AusGail]

15. If everybody left the country

Bush and his neocons would have no one left to lie to

[SoFlaJet]

17. and

no one left to fight their phony wars

[Strawman]

18. there won't be a draft

nope. we'll just keep sending the poor into the meat grinder and if that's not enough we'll buy mercenaries and if that's not enough we'll just nuke them. A draft would make any war that was not absolutely necessary politically untenable. The backlash would bring the entire war industry down. They won't take that risk. They've got a good thing going.

I'm most worried about the people who volunteer to defend our country and the people in Iran who might be on the receiving end of a nuclear bomb.

But if I had a teenager, even the remote possibility of a draft would scare the shit out of me too.