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July 26, 2005 08:00 AM UTC
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Go, John! I find it ironic that those that would never go near the military are now using its awards to cynically further their own interests. I’m not just talking about the movie but often art imitates real life; there are those who claim Viet Nam combat service (W. Churchill comes to mind)who never fired a shot in defense or anger. When I returned from service and enrolled in college, war vets were shunned because they were an embarassment to their fellow students whose claim to being hip was their ability to avoid any service without the inconvenience of jail or going to Canada. The cynicism of both camps is what fuels the political fires today. Just wait 30 years, todays Iraq vets will be voting and running and will, I hope, be many times more disillusioned; after all, they really know they have been warriors ill-used in an extension of piss-poor policy. To paraphrase Lee Burkins, they took bullets when the rest of us refused to even bite one.
“I find it ironic that those that would never go near the military are now using its awards to cynically further their own interests.”
You mean like Bush, Cheney, Rove, Libby, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Gingrich, Limbaugh, DeLay, Hastert, Quayle, Gary Bauer, and Pat Robertson. They all avoided military service and are currently using the military to cynically further their own interests.
Honestly, though this whole “controversey” is just silly. It’s a silly movie joke, the energy spent being offended by this would be better focused elsewhere.
Is it smart for Salazar to take on John Kerry like this? If the laws are changed, Kerry should be the first one to go.
“Is it smart for Salazar to take on John Kerry like this? If the laws are changed, Kerry should be the first one to go.”
typical modern day Republican, smearing the name of a war hero…. Kerry, McCain, Max Cleland. All the while voting for draftdodging chickenhawks like Bush, Cheney et al.
Why do Republican’s have such hostility towards Veterans? I mean when you’re not dragging their good names through the mud out of partisan political opportunism you’re slashing their benefits.
I often wonder how people of your ilk sleep at night.
“typical modern day Republican, smearing the name of a war hero…. Kerry, McCain, Max Cleland. All the while voting for draftdodging chickenhawks like Bush, Cheney et al.
Why do Republican’s have such hostility towards Veterans?”
What a load of crap. No one is smearing Kerry, McLain, Cleland because they are veterans. All three were attacked for there positions on issues and/or their use of their status for political gain. John “Look at Me I’m a Hero” Kerry, who cynically used his veteran status to smear real heros after Vietnam. I respect his service to his country – but I do not respect what he did afterwards. I respect John McCain for what he did for his country. But he is the first to tell you that “I am not a hero”. Real heros, like Bob Dole – or even George McGovern – didn’t go around telling people that they were heros. Max Cleland, who should have used his admirable story about rising from being a quadrapalegic to a US Senator, instead used his disability to cry “Pity Me” and bash Bush. I admire Cleland for his service to his country, but he wasn’t a hero either. He didn’t even receive a Purple Heart for his injury, because it wasn’t caused by the enemy.
Just being a veteran doesn’t grant you an absolute right from being attacked. Just ask Bob Dole, George McGovern, George H.W. Bush, and many other true heros. All the Republicans I know respect all veterans for their service to our country. But that doesn’t mean that we’re gonna give you a pass when your policies are stupid
are you telling me that Republican’s didn’t attack Kerry, McCain, and Cleland’s patriotism and service?
In South Carolina Bush’s campaign said that McCain was a snitch while he was in Hanoi Hilton
In Georgia Max Cleland was placed on campaign literature next to Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden and his patriotism was directly questioned. Never mind the fact that he gave 3 limbs in Vietnam.
The Swifties lies have been well documented and exposed as well.
These men’s service was directly attacked, not their positions, their service to this country was directly called into question.
Learnedhand wrote:
“In South Carolina Bush’s campaign said that McCain was a snitch while he was in Hanoi Hilton”
WRONG. Bush’s campaign never did such a thing. Those rumors were spread, but not by anyone connected with the campaign. Or are you going to say that anything some fringie says is official policy? Does that mean that I can take what some of the wackos on DailyKos and DemocraticUnderground say as official John Kerry policy? Or can I assume that the person who did this represents you and other liberals?
FAIRFIELD – American flags, lining the lawn of the mother- and father-in-law of fallen U.S. Army Pfc. Timothy Hines Jr., were heaped in a pile early Saturday and burned under a car parked in front of the home – less than 24 hours after Hines was buried in Cincinnati?s Spring Grove Cemetery. The flames totaled Sara Wessel?s car.
Sara is Hines? sister-in-law and Jim Wessel?s oldest daughter. She had been staying at the house on Sando Drive since the family returned last week from Washington, D.C., where they were visiting Hines at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Hines, 21, was buried Friday?with full military honors, leaving behind a pregnant widow who expects to give birth in about two weeks and a 2-year-old daughter. Hines died last week from injuries suffered when a roadside bomb exploded June 19 in Baghdad.
?What happened to this family is a tragedy; what occurred (Saturday) morning is despicable,? Fairfield Police Chief Mike Dickey said in a prepared statement. ?We will take every step to identify the persons responsible and hold them accountable.?
I can’t imagine that you would want to defend the actions of some sickos that would do something like this. Don’t expect me to defend some rightwing sickos that spread rumors about John McCain.
Max Cleland was attacked – along with most Democratic Senators in 2002 – because they were delaying the creation of the Dept of Homeland Security. They seemed to think that only UNIONIZED goverment employees were capable of fighting terrorism. Cleland was not attacked because he was a vet – but because he was an obstructionist.
As for “the Swifties lies have been well documented and exposed” maybe in your liberal mind… But most – though not all – of what they said has been documented and proven true. Your truths must be based on John Kerry’s recollections, like being ordered into Cambodia by Richard Nixon… Before Nixon had even taken the oath of office.
I’m glad the lesser Salazar is keeping America safe from war hero posers. Never know when one of them might try to get a free drink with a fake purple heart, or get a chick or something. So far this week he has saved us from the sugar beet lobby and Hollywood. Oh wait, I mean he saved the sugar beet lobby and pissed on a funny movie instead of using his office to do something important. Soooooo glad we elected him! Did he eat too much paste as a child?!?
I agree (and was amused) Jon. What’s next, Daisy Dukes?
Phony Purple Heart Joke
Thanks alot, Congressman KillJoy. So you get the “party pooper” vote. Will that be enough to get you reelected as a Democrat in Colorado? All because of you and your Red State Bubbas, the Wedding Crasher’s Web site had to remove the FREE ‘Crasher Kit…
We all know how much respect some Republicans have had for Purple Hearts in the recent past. Purple Heart Band-Aids, anyone?
Let’s rephrase, GOPer… Republicans opposed to McCain did, indeed, smear McCain in SC. No direct ties were ever proven to the Bush campaign, but this is definitely Karl Rove’s style of play, and it was Bush that stood the most to gain from such a smear.
Max Cleland’s PATRIOTISM was questioned, not his support of the standard government labor agreement.
The SBVT group’s claims were soundly disproved by the recent release of Kerry’s military records and a review by the Pentagon. Nevermind that many of the SBVT vets made amazing testimonials of Kerry – some only a couple of years prior to their “book”.
I think falsification of medals is a serious issue. Our soldiers get little enough respect as it is. False representation of service is a crime, and rightfully so. Can false representation of honors be far behind that?
Flag burning is not equivalent, though Salazar thinks it is. I don’t generally support flag-burning, but I will support the right (and need) to be able to burn the flag in protest, just as I support the right (and need) to bear arms.
Suprise, suprise…. a Republican finds himself in electoral trouble against a war Veteran and starts to attack that Veteran’s status. This time they’re going after Paul Hackett in Ohio.
So “Another CD6 GOPer”, what’s your contrived excuse this time?
http://yellowdogdems.blogspot.com/2005/07/republicans-are-thrashing-service-of.html
Suprise, suprise, suprise… Republican’s are smearing Iraq war vet Paul Hackett in Ohio now, calling into question his service.
http://yellowdogdems.blogspot.com/2005/07/republicans-are-trashing-service-of.html
Also let’s not forget that the Gun Manufacturers Liability Bill was brought to the floor at the expense of the Defense Authorization Bill. Armor for our soldiers humvees can apparently wait, as can funding for VA hospitals, funding for widows and orphans of veterans.
A giveaway to the gun industry is more important to Republican’s than our nation’s security, our nations soliders, and our nation’s veterans.
I love it when Democrats defend soldiers, what a hoot! You don’t want to defend trial lawyers so you attack timing.
Have you seen the allegations against Hackett? They pretty much amount to “you went to Iraq to further your political career” and “prove you killed Iraqis”. I didn’t see a major outcry of that when Coffman decided to head over to Iraq…
Iraq isn’t somewhere you go to improve your political career, and GOP voices resorting to that level of crap – especially when the GOP candidate is embroiled in scandal – is disgusting.
Candyraver’s famous Ben Franklin quote surely applied most directly to this…
Oh, and frankly I’m offended by your insinuation that Democrats don’t support the troops. Who is calling for adequate funding for the VA to support Iraq war veterans? Who is calling for adequate compensation for National Guard troops who are serving as regular soldiers in Iraq? Who led the fight to get enough flak jackets and HMMMV armor?
Those are the things that most directly affect our troops over there, and Republicans are fighting all of them. Don’t laugh at Democrats for defending soldiers – be concerned that Republicans aren’t doing what they should to do the same.
What makes me laugh is the political expediency and transparency of the “defense” of troops. While it may be an overgeneralization (yes there are pro-solider Democrats) I am cynical enough to believe that the majority are not and are trying to use this, or any other issue than can come up with, as a political ploy.
Frankly, I wasn’t responding to the Hackett issue, I haven’t been following it closely and don’t know what the issues are. I was responding hiding behind some percieved timing issue and the defense bill.
Jake – you mean the Defense Bill that Sen. Frist canned today when he didn’t get cloture? Because he didn’t want Sen. McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Warner (R-VA) and Sen. Graham (R-SC) introducing amendments forbidding torture at US facilities, shoring up veterans benefits, or delaying base closings until the end of major deployments to Iraq?
It’s not just Democrats…
I haven’t seen the movie Wedding Crashers but the topic is a good one. People shouldn’t lie about anything to get ahead in business or life in general.
I haven’t seen the movie Wedding Crashers but the topic is a good one. People shouldn’t lie about anything to get ahead in business or life in general.