POLITICAL EYE OPENER: who served and who didn't

[ailsagirl]

This came to me in an email. I do not know the original source.

DEMOCRATS

:patriot:

* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
* Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.
* Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
* John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star! , Bronze Star with Combat V, Purple Hearts.
* Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
* Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star ! & Bronze Star, Vietnam.
Paraplegic from war injuries. Served in Congress.
* Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
* Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.
* Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91.
* Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven campaign ribbons.
* Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze Stars,and Soldier's Medal.
* Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star and Legion of Merit.
* Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.
* Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam; Bronze Star with Combat V.
* Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
* Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
* Chuck Robb: Vietnam
* Howell Heflin: Silver Star* George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWI I.
* Bill Cl inton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but received #311.
* Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
* Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
* John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and AirMedal with 18 Clusters.
* Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul Wallenberg.

REPUKES
and these are the guys sending people to war:
* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.
* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom Delay: did not serve.
* Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
* ! Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Vin Weber: did not serve.* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* Jon! Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve.
* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty.
* Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non- combat role makin g movies.
* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* John McCain: Vietnam POW, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
* Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
* John M. McHugh: did not serve.
* JC Watts: did not serve.
*! Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem, " although continued in NFL for 8 years as quarterback.
* Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
* John Engler: did not serve.
* Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.

Pundits & Preachers :puke:
* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst.')
* Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
* Michael Savage: did not serve.
* George Will: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Paul Gigot: did not serve.
* Bill Bennett: did not serve.
* Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
* John Wayne: did not serve.
* Bill Kristol: did not serve.
* Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
* Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
* Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
* Ralph Reed: did not serve.
* Michael Medved: did not serve.
* Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
* Ted Nugent: did not serve. (He only shoots at things that don't shoot back.)

Please keep this information circulating!

[malaise]

1. Damn

war is being waged by men who duck war.

[ailsagirl]

3. Yep-- ironic, isn't it?? Cowards

[Divernan]

2. Saxby Chambliss claimed bad knee, but was a jogger!

Praise Jeebus, my knee is cured! It's a a Chickenhawk miracle!

[Submariner]

4. Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.

Cheney had FIVE deferments. When they changed the criteria to "defer only if a parent" (I believe after his 4th deferment) he had to pork his hog and pump out a rug rat to stay safe. A classic draft-dodger.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

5. Randi Rhodes was in the Air Force...

& Jerry Springer also served in the military. Not sure about Al Frankin.

Oh & on the other side - Liddy Gordon did serve. What about the Ayatollah Pat Robertson?

[peacebaby3]

6. Al Franken didn't serve. He went to school. He talks about this in his new

book. He talks about those that served in his place. It's in the section about the "swiftboating" of John Kerry.

[Brundle_Fly]

22. at least Al

goes over with the USO.

[Submariner]

7. Robertsons daddy got him transferred to the rear with the gear

when Patty boy was supposed to go into combat in Korea.

[YOY]

8. I did not know that about Lantos

Here is a great film about Raoul Wallenberg

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099673/

[blueknight]

9. i read where

john wayne got married and knocked up his wife so he would not have to go. then a month after ww2 ended he filed for divorce

[sweetm2475]

10. Good Ammo For Freeper Wars! K,R&Bookmarked...Thanks!

:patriot:

[Dinger]

11. Thanks, Yes, I Will Indeed Circulate This! : )

[boobooday]

12. To be fair . . .

I think there are some genetic predispositions to certain ailments among Republicans.

1. Higher than normal incidence of anal cysts.
2. Higher than normal incidence of psychological pathology.
3. Higher than normal incidence of chronic privilege and entitlement, compounded by "other priorities" syndrome . . .

There could be more. Medical science is working on it as we speak.

[sweetm2475]

13. LOL

:rofl:

[Tsiyu]

14. Well, this settles it once and for all

Republicans are cowards.

Unless you count the women they beat up, the black people they leave to rot along the Gulf, the ten year olds they strip search, or the children whose testicles they crush in Iraq.

And Mr. ROTC Alito thinks its acceptable to stick broomsticks up retarded people's asses! Woohoo! Big hero there!


Guess when you know you are a lily-livered chickenshit, you have to abuse somebody to feel all manly and stuff.

[Divernan]

16. He ruled against that poor guy cause his lawyer messed up some cites.

In other words, the mentally retarded man had a valid, legal cause of action, but because his lawyer didn't dot every i and cross every t in a brief to the court, Alito would have let the vicious bullies walk.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

15. Add Neal Boortz to the chickenhawk pundits

he did not serve either. Some ailment or another. Maybe he had a boil on his ass too. He is a so-called libertarian out of Atlanta, who pretty much just parrots off the Repukes talking points.

Interesting thing about Rush is that his dad had the same boil problem, but still managed to serve in WWII.

[sweetm2475]

17. Neal Boortz just makes me

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Tsiyu]

23. Oh, I know Niel too well

I always spell his name wrong just in case it pisses him off.

Did you know that he is pro-choice? I used to produce his show. I'm curious as to what he thinks of ALito, but I'm sure he won't discuss abortion on the air now.

[Chemical Bill]

18. Here's a website.

I don't think it's the original source of your list, but it's close.

http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html

Bill

[ailsagirl]

19. kick

[SpiralHawk]

20. Chickenhawk Republicans - living in world of fear

and cowardice, blustering all over the stinking place to try and hide the stench of their fear, and their lack of patriotism...

[ailsagirl]

21. You said it!!

These are FACTS!! This is in black and white...
They really ARE cowards-- this proves it!! I'd
love to hear them try to worm their way out of
this. Their fount of excuses must be running dry
about now...

What a bunch of revolting hypocrites!!!

:puke: