Subj : War, What's it good for?
To   : All
From : Finnigann
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 01:02 pm

This was originally posted in 2002 (but I just saw it today.) Still seems to
have some relevance even today.

War is always the worst choice. Sometimes, *rarely*, though it's the only
choice.

ALL else is quoted from a message base at 
http://www.iidb.org/vbb/archive/index.php/t-35638.html


CHARACTER MATTERS
The Democratic leadership in the House and Senate: 

House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt - Served his country in uniform, 1965-71

House Minority Whip David Bonior - Served his country in uniform, 1968-72 
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle - Served his country in uniform, 1969-72 
President of the Senate Albert Gore - Served his country in uniform, 1969-71 

President Jimmy Carter served as a Navy officer in WW2 on a nuclear (that's
Noo-Clee-AR) submarine.

The Republican leadership in the House and Senate: 

Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich - avoided the draft, did not serve. 
Majority Leader Dick Armey- avoided the draft, did not serve. 
Majority Whip Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve. 
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott - avoided the draft, did not serve. 


THE CHICKENHAWKS
Conservatives make great fun of President Clinton for questioning the Vietnam
War, standing up to his beliefs and questioning his own participation in that
war as well, i.e., being honest and walking the walk of his own belief system
at least for a time. On the other hand there were literally millions of
dishonest hypocritical, cowardly right-wing loonies who supported the war while
refusing to personally participate. Here are just a few: 

Elliott Abrams - Sought deferment for bad back. 

Richard Armey - Sought college deferment, too smart to die. 

Bill Bennett - Sought graduate school deferment, too smart to die. 

Pat Buchanan - Sought deferment for bad knee. 

George W. Bush - Daddy got him in the reserves. Was AWOL for 18 months from the
Air National Guard. Desertion from the US military is a capital offense, can be
punished by hanging. Also has a criminal rapsheet of multiple arrests for DWIs
that has magically disappeared.

Dick Cheney - Sought graduate school deferment, too smart to die. 

Tom DeLay - - Sought college deferment, too smart to die. 

Newt Gingrich - Sought graduate school deferment, too smart to die. 

Phil Gramm - Sought marriage deferment, too loved to die. 

Jack Kemp - Sought medical deferment while in the NFL. 

Rush Limbaugh - Sought deferment for ingrown hair follicle on his ass. 

Trent Lott - Sought deferment, didn't want to muss his hair. 

P.J. O'Rourke - Sought deferment, too stoned. 

Dan Quayle - Family got him into the Reserves. 

Pat Robertson - Father pulled him out of Korea as soon as the shooting began. 

Kenneth Starr – Sought deferment for psoriasis. 

John Wayne - Sought deferment to further acting 
career. 

Vin Weber - Sought deferment for asthma. 

George Will - Sought deferment, too much of a wussy. 

Half the men killed in Vietnam were 18 or younger. Draftees were twice as
likely to be killed than enlistees. Only 2% were college graduates. The vast
majority of those sent to combat were either minority or poor. 

The result of the Vietnam War was not only the 58,000 young American boys who
died, but 1 million North Vietnamese soldiers, 2 million Vietnamese civilians
with over 4 million more wounded. The above mentioned little hypocritical
cowards wished then, and still wish today that all those figures were higher.
Never forget that we dropped three times as much ordinance on Vietnam as we did
in all theaters of war in WW2. 

So when these little Chickenhawks talk of fighting that war with our hands tied
behind our backs, be sure to understand that what they mean is we should have
either instituted a full scale ground invasion into North Vietnam with
projected other-not me American deaths in the hundreds of thousands of American
soldiers, or we should have dropped megaton class hydrogen bombs on major
population centers throughout Southeast Asia.


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