100 college presidents came out last week in support of lowering the drinking age to 18. I agree with them. If you are old enough to vote and go to war and fight and perhaps die for your country - then you should be able to drink legally.

Imagine that you just fought in Iraq for 2 years, and then you come home to the US. You had seen several of your friends killed in Iraq. And in fact you came very close to being killed yourself. So you come back to the US and go meet some friends somewhere to have a drink - but then you are arrested by the police as an underage drinker. The law says that you are not ready to drink, you are not responsible enough yet. This is just so wrong.

Selective prohibition targeted at certain sub-groups of voters is just not right. If the argument is that it saves drunk driving deaths - then why not raise the drinking age to 30? People in their 20s tend to be rowdy - I guess that they should all be arrested if they are caught drinking!

If you must be 21 to drink, then the federal laws should be changed to raise the voting age to 21 and to raise the age to join the military to 21. As a nation we have to decide: Are young people adults at 18 or at 21? We can’t have it both ways.

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