Is there anyone from your family over in Iraq fighting. Did your husband serve in Vietnam? Are your kids enlisting to fight? I'm guessing the answer is "no." Did your dad serve in WWII, uncles? Did anyone in your family serve in Korea? The men I've known who served courageously in Vietnam still have their medals. One still has his uniform. They are democrats. Did they serve their country honorably. You betcha. Do they think vietnam was a costly stupid mistake (understatement). You betcha.
Who's running for Congress in '06? 100 veterans, and guess what! MOST are democrats. Of course, you on the right will do your best to trash them and trash their service to this country. You want them to take your place fighting and then you spit on them when they come home as you did after Vietnam. Makes our service people really happy to know that bush/rove and company hate anyone who actually serves...Look what they did to Clelland and McCain...such hypocrisy.
"in the 2006 Congressional elections, soldier-candidates are marching across the campaign field in numbers not seen in a half-century, many veterans of the Iraq, Afghan, Vietnam, Balkan and first gulf wars — nearly 100 candidates in all, not including a single incumbent.
Most are Democrats, but Republicans have come up with their own veterans as well.
(How will they fare? considering how the right vilifies veterans) Thanks to Rove(draft-dodger) Bush(AWOL)...." attacking war heroes has been fair game: John Kerry's Vietnam record was attacked when he ran for president, and Max Cleland, a triple-amputee and Vietnam veteran, lost his Senate seat in Georgia in 2002 after Republicans accused him of being soft on national security. John McCain, when he ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, was accused of abandoning veterans. Many of the newest candidates are discovering that the political battlefield may be as challenging as the military one."
nytimes.com |
