Draft the twins - part 2

I know I've blogged abou this before but I'm going to do it again. Yes, there are those who would disagree with me but I really think it's rather disingenuous for the president to talk about war sacrifice when his own daughters have not enlisted. I want to call your attention to an article by Kitty Kelley called "Why Aren't The Bush Daughters In Iraq?" and add that I am asking that question too. Take a look:

When I was a little girl in a convent school, the nuns impressed on me the power of setting a good example. These beloved teachers are no longer around to instruct the president and his family, so I recommend that the Bushes learn from Mark Twain, who said: "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

My suggestion comes after the White House announcement earlier this month that Jenna Bush, one of the president's twin daughters, is writing a book on her all-expenses-paid trip to Panama, where she worked for a few weeks as an intern for UNICEF. Jenna Bush is quoted as saying she will donate her earnings from her book to UNICEF, a commendable gesture, considering her father's net worth of $20 million. But while the 25-year-old makes the rounds of TV talk shows this fall in a White House limousine, dozens of her contemporaries will be arriving home from Iraq in wooden boxes. In Britain, Prince Harry is insisting on going off to Iraq — even as his country is reducing its troop commitment.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt showed how the power of good example could also be powerfully good politics. When he led the country to sacrifice in World War II, his children enlisted and his wife traveled to military bases to counsel and comfort the families of soldiers. Newsreels showed the president's four sons fighting with the Marines in the Pacific, flying with the Army Air Forces in North Africa and landing with the Navy at Normandy. Soon other public figures followed suit — movie stars (James Stewart and Clark Gable) enlisted and sports heroes (Joe DiMaggio and Hank Greenberg) went off to war.
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The president tells us Iraq is a "noble" war, but his wife, his children and his nieces and nephews are not listening. None has enlisted in the armed services, and none seems to be paying attention to the sacrifices of military families...
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The first lady, so often lauded for her love of literacy, has not been seen in the reading rooms of veterans' hospitals...

Why is it okay for the sons and daughters of ordinary Americans to lay down their lives or, worse, be horribly injured for life but it's not okay for the Bush family children to do so? I know there are those who would say that the Bush children would be targets. Are the others NOT targets? And what about the Roosevelt sons? If a president's child is a greater target than other military men and women then the Roosevelt boys ought not to have gone.