hell no, let us go!

"raging grannies" try to enlist, go to iraq

i struggled with this one for a while. my first reaction was, "great. the heat has driven the elderly, as a whole, crazy." then i read the article, my next reaction was, "shit. you're from the same city ruth is from," which is more a statement of fact than a reaction. i kept reading and found out they did this so their kids and grandkids could come home, and was kind of moved. the article framed the story as a pretty effective act of civil disobedience, or at the very least, a good joke. then, the article closed with this gem:

"This was not a performance, a joke or civil disobedience," she said. "This was an enlistment attempt."

so now i'm just confused. i can't tell if old ladies in tucson want to go kill insurgents or not. and i'm really curious to know if they've ever seen full metal jacket.