'Raging Grannies' risk US jail

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'Raging Grannies' risk US jail in bid to be allowed to fight in Iraq 1 hour, 30 minutes ago


LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Five greying anti-war activists from a group dubbed the "Raging Grannies" face possible jail time after demanding to be enlisted in the US Army to fight in Iraq, one of them said.

The women, aged between 57 and 92, were charged with criminal trespass after turning up at an Armed Forces Recruiting Center in the western US state of Arizona demanding they be allowed to join the fighting ranks.

"We're very serious about that, we really want to enlist," 74-year-old "Raging Granny" Betty Schroeder told AFP.

"We think it would be better if old people were killed at war than young ones," the retired nurse, whose husband and two brothers were killed in battle in other wars, explained.

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1. Pathetic.

Prosecuting old ladies who are trying to make a very rational and valid point. Our government is completely and thoroughly pathetic.