[Go grandma go!] 'Raging Grannies' want to enlist, go to Iraq http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/22/raging.grannies.ap/index.html Friday, July 22, 2005; Posted: 1:35 p.m. EDT (17:35 GMT) TUCSON, Arizona (AP) -- A group of anti-war senior citizens calling themselves the "Tucson Raging Grannies" say they want to enlist in the U.S. Army and go to Iraq so that their children and grandchildren can come home. Five members of the group -- which is associated with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -- are due in court Monday to face trespassing charges after trying to enlist at a military recruitment center last week. The group has protested every week for the last three years outside the recruitment center. "We went in asking to be sent to Iraq so our kids and grandchildren can be sent home, but rather than listening to us, they called the police," said 74-year-old Betty Schroeder. "It was their place to tell us the qualifications, but they wouldn't even speak to us. They should've said, `You're too old."' Schroeder said her group may approach the Pentagon to see if they could be sent to Iraq. Nancy Hutchinson, spokeswoman at the Army recruiting headquarters in Phoenix which oversees Tucson's recruiters, said people who disagree with the war should be contacting their legislators instead of bothering recruiters. "They need to direct their frustrations at people who have the power to change things," Hutchinson said. "Recruiters don't make policy and they can't change policy. They have a job to do and they are following orders." Schroeder said she hopes the trespassing charges will be dropped and an apology given to the group from the Tucson Police Department and from the recruiters. "This was not a performance, a joke or civil disobedience," she said. "This was an enlistment attempt."
See, this is what happens when the blue-hairs don't head north to avoid the Arizona summer. All that protesting in the sun has fried their brains.
I know I shouldn't but I just cann't get the image of golden girls armed with M16's and wearing night gowns out of my mind. It is just too funny.
Why don't the recruiters just deny their application and say they are too old? That would take all of 10 minutes...
When the suicide bombers see these old ladies in uniforms they would laugh so hard that they trip over themselves and detonate prematurely?
I don't think anyone is going to be "detonating prematurely" at the sight of these women, if you catch my drift.....
