Even though I think what you wrote is bull, I think you do a disservice not including the woman who serve our country. Thank you

Most grandmothers, I would expect, who are the older women who support Hillary, are more likely to have a grandson in the service than a granddaughter. (Women in combat being a fairly recent development.)

Now, do you disagree with Hillary's history of approving/promoting wars?

well hey, you can wear your rose tinted glasses all you like-- I'll be fine with looking at reality and then taking shots of crown. Seven thousand American servicemen and women dead in Iraq. Nine, hundred, thousand, wounded in the same venture. She doesn't care about the troops unless they're unethically intervening.

And the family members of all the service people killed there.

Tell it to the people of Libya. And Honduras.

Have you not heard one of his speeches?

Meanwhile, in America where people can vote for POTUS:
55.6% Unfavorable
38.7% Favorable
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/hillary-clinton-favorable-rating

Bottom line, what matters is her actual record and whose interests she serves.

fair (good luck with that) draft again. If it was not only the poor, desperate or deluded who signed up, then we would not have as many wars. There would be too much of the privileged protesting..

I wonder what Bernie thinks about that. Nobody ever talks about it.

Learn a trade or a career skill, learn the meaning of civic duty, learn the significance of the military and why we shouldn't be sticking our noses everywhere and anywhere, and you'd see a lot less of these keyboard commando civvies popping off at the mouth.

Politically, the draft is a non-starter -- unless the conflicts were in become so dire that a majority of voters believe we have to expand our military forces, even if it means family members are at risk.

Libya was unconscionable. She had Iraq as a lesson, she had the intel, she pushed for the war; not for cheap oil for a national economy but for a self-serving bullet point on her resume for this very election cycle.

That Libya hasn't turned into a quagmire for hundreds of thousands of troops is a result only of the fact she had no plan for dealing with the vacuum she created. Sure, she spared US troops but the Libyan people suffer just as badly as the Iraqi people for the hubris of the American political class.

She doesn't deserve our votes she should be prosecuted at the ICC.

Her intel on Libya came to her unsecured server, from old Clinton crony Sid Blumenthal, who had been banned from advising her as SoS by President Obama. Blumenthal was ginning up private business in Libya after Gadhaffi would fall, and he was getting flawed info from a former CIA officer who was also ginning up private business there. Clinton was running rogue foreign policy out of the sight of Obama, who did not know Blumenthal was still whispering in her ear.

Interfere and destabilize another ME country.

No idea why she has supporters in the DEM party!

She can't have any of them for their foolishness.

No need to think and it ain't hard....tend to our business for a change.

Congratulations on your brood.

..... We have an all volunteer force. I am 100% sure that will not change under President Clinton.

Also, why only the concern about grandsons? Women fight too, and will soon be more an more on the front lines.

Nothing prevents a warmongering and imperial president from compelling Congress to draft fighters again.

Not as many would volunteer for service as they have in the past because so many were so gun ho for Iraq mostly because of 9/11.

I know the OP said "grandsons" but in my above post I mention that I have one granddaughter because I know woman can also be on the front lines now and she can't go to any wars that are none of our business to line the pockets of those who will sit on their wallets/bank accounts for their children and grandchildren who will not be losing life and limb in the fight.

WRONG! If nothing else an all-volunteer force deserves a Commander-in-Chief that doesn't treat them as toys to be pushed around a sandbox in displays of bravado and misplaced ambition. Those who join do so out of necessity and/or sense of duty. They deserve not to have their ideals betrayed in fits of realpolitik.

While you're fixating on the fact women serve as well try to remember that men, women and children have suffered and continue to suffer for Hillary's self-serving war of aggression. That US service members aren't bogged down in stabilization operations in Libya is merely a testament to Clinton's failure to think beyond the headlines she was looking for. Incompetence doesn't make her corruption any less lethal for the people of Libya.

However, I do think that anyone joinilng the military, for any reason, should be aware of what the military's job is.... Killing people and blowing crap up. And quite often, the other guys are trying to do the same right back at ya. I advise young people i know (including my own daughter) to NOT join the military, without understanding that, and being willing to take that risk.

That does mean I support putting our soldiers, seamen, airmen and marines in harms way without good reason. But good reason or not, there is a risk when you take a job oriented around fighting.

Because the OP talked about the gravity of electing someone who has indisputably led this nation into a reckless war of aggression.

Your reply to that assertion was that we have an all-volunteer military -- as if that is somehow relevant in the discussion of reckless wars of aggression. If I missed or misinterpreted something please expound.

And they need to end. War, changes people. Realizing you're in a war for the wrong reasons.
Makes it unbearable. Suicide rate of Veterans alone prove that. I urge any Hillary Supporter to at least look through Hillary's decisions that have lead into bloodshed.

and thank you for your service.

I`ve spent countless hours talking with veterans at several VA hospitals and it`s a real eye-opener. My best to you.

~PEACE~

and hours of dedication. It means a lot to hear that!

With no clue that it's America that's burning.

Some of you have managed to whip yourself into a ridiculous frenzy over HRC. She is NOT going to reinstate the draft.

frenzy?

I have advised her against joining the military. I have had two nephews who have served. Both made it theough more or less unwounded.

..to be sent into war but you warn your daughter against enlisting.

Why don't you just stop supporting a candidate who has a record of warmongering?

I don't want anyone's children, volunteers or not, wasted in the endeavor.

But There is no doubt a wid range of opinion on when intervention is justified.

who have a new-found indifference to Democratic-led wars, what, in your last 13 years of your experience with your country being at war, leads you to believe that the efforts are justified?

Supporting it when your party is doing it, and only opposing it when it's the other party in charge, is pretty much bald-faced hypocrisy.

apparently doesn`t matter any more, regardless of the devastating, ongoing consequences for millions and millions of human beings. The Third Way Democrats explain that vote away, make excuses for it, accept it....the opposite of what many of them said during the George W. Bush years.Today the most important thing is "winning"....at all costs.

Hillary Clinton is a hawk. Apparently Third Wayers like that.

How many trillions of dollars spent on "nation building" elsewhere? Think of the waste. Think of the money going into the pockets of people like Cheney -- money diverted from our own children's food and education and safety.

and tells me all I need to know about those who overlook that vote, especially the ones with the unbelievable excuses.

To get my vote back she would have to prove she can be trusted to keep us out of more military blunders and that she truly serves the interests of average Americans.

Instead, she continues to demonstrate she is a hawk and is a status quo politicians richly supported by Wall Street.

The world a candidate means to make for my grandson. The difference between the candidates on that is stark, frightening, and non-negotiable.

away from rebuilding our country and investing in educating our children. In the normal operation of war, our nations wealth flows down from all of us through taxes into the few "pockets" of the military industrial complex, global banking corporations, the fossil fuel companies and the nations propped up by them. These "pockets" aka, the 1/10th of 1% or the super rich, then actually and literally buy/pay for our Representative Government. Let that sink in for a sec. This government who represents those "pockets" who bought them, now have control of our national tax coffers through the function of expenditures. The 1% through their representatives in government now make decisions on important things like war, peace, taxation, judiciary, regulation on banking and the FCC (media ownership, structure and concentration) to name just two. All the while furthering the concentration of our nation's production and wealth into fewer and fewer "pockets" ... and the cycle continues, accelerates, concentrates and grows....to Oligarchical Empire

We should all be concerned about Hillary's stand in regard to wars, foreign intervention, righteous meddling of our politicians. This old timer is disillusioned with our government and with the direction we are traveling.

I see no change in our militaristic direction if Hillary is elected.

Go Bernie

The Clintons to me represent everything that went horribly wrong with my generation. Yes Hillary is a neocon she would gladly put your Grandchildren at risk. Here is my list:

1. Much like Bill Cosby and his wife the Clinton's are deep into serial sexual predation due a male libido that is insatiable. Although the Bill probably did not use drugs there seems to be a long list of women documenting these encounters. Hillary and her response to Bill's liaisons is classic denial. More than dollar bills have been thrown at Bill's accusers.

2. You are known by the company you keep. Right wing conspiracy my ass, the males in the Bush family should be in prison cell or worse. The feigned Clinton, Bush rivalry is sickening for more than 10 years they are openly close. Jeb vs Hillary would have been a joke the Republican brand has more baggage than your average Clinton (which is saying a lot).

3. Anyone who opposes a Clinton is automatically involved in a vast right wing conspiracy. The Clinton brand thrives on criticism, best of all extreme right wing nuttery deflects blame for more obvious Clinton manipulation. Right Wing media such as FOX are Clinton's best friend. At the pinnacle Limbaugh is the most effective cheerleader providing plenty of cover.

4. Clinton's have always been in the bag for ultra wealthy concerns be it Tyson Foods or the Walton's. You do not need transcripts of Wall Street speeches to figure that out.

5. They are good at playing liberal progressives. When they are gone the smile remains.

6. Hillary can hire through the family foundation specific people banned by her boss. Talk about disloyalty to Obama.

Here is the horrible part for the sake of a Supreme Court nominee I will cave and vote for Hillary. My survivor's will have to live with that.

Do you believe that US military should only be utilized in defense of US territory?

If your answer is "yes", you disagree with Senator Sanders.

If your answer is "no", then it's just a question of which nations you want to intervene in and to what extent.

What, in the 13 years of our country being in these particular wars, leads anyone to believe that the efforts are justified? The millions of civilians killed? The spreading destabilization? The increase in extremist splinter groups that make all the world less safe?

If there were a candidate more outspoken against these wars, I would support them. In my opinion, Sanders isn't half as vocal as he should be against these wars. No one is, and that may be the worst part of this election year.

is squeezed into a cattle chute and forced to vote for increased militarism, more instability, more death and the destruction of natural resources, more oppression and crushed potential at home and abroad, means to me that there is little to gloat over, no matter what candidate is ultimately chosen.

I see the expression of rejection of the status quo by Bernie supporters as extremely hopeful. He has awakened and informed the young people, and I don't think there's any going back unless a president intends to use military aggression against the people themselves. Yes, that has happened previously. But this is a global phenomenon, and chaos is the more likely result than submission.

Some days I'm more pessimistic than others.

It's easy to be, these days. Sometimes I look to the example of the Civil Rights Movement for a lesson in perseverance and patience.

because they're voting for Hillary much more than they're voting for Bernie.

Sid