Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> I don't suppose anybody remembers this, but when the whole war in Iraq 
> thing started up, the UK press made this big deal out of this 16 year 
> old girl being sent to Iraq. Everybody was all like "OMG! She's only 16! 
> I don't think they should make her go." And they had an interview with 
> her mother who was all like "oh, she's my only daughter, this is a 
> terrible thing to have to happen to her, and I'm really worried about 
> what will become of her".
> 
> WTF? SHE JOINED THE ARMY!!! What did she THINK she was going to be 
> doing?!? If she didn't want to end up in a warzone, she shouldn't have 
> joined the army! HELLO?! >_<
> 
> Lady, if you didn't want your daughter to die in a war, you shouldn't 
> have let her join the army!

The US military does not presently accept children that age (although 
young men have lied about their ages in order to join up), and won't 
take a seventeen-year-old who does not have his/her parents' written 
approval (the military has special forms for this).

And knowing the BBC's record of accuracy on all things Bush-related, 
it's possible--and given Orchid's comment, a certainty--that something
that bears on the situation was left out of the reporting.

Regards,
John

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