Here's what Bush Republicans really think about serving our country... as they send others to fight and die.
Republican Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, chose not to serve our country.
Former Republican House Majority Speaker, Dick Armey, chose not to serve our country.
Repblican Texas Senator Phil Gram got several deferments (4?).
Republican Jack Kemp chose not to serve our country, because of a “bad knee,” but that didn’t stop him from playing pro football. (No Pat Tillman he.)
Republican House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, chose not to serve our country.
Republican House Majority Whip, Roy Blunt, chose not to serve our country.
Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher chose not to serve our country.
Republican Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist, chose not to serve our country.
Republican Majority Whip, Mitch McConnell, chose not to serve our country.
Republican Rick Santorum, third ranking Republican in the Senate, chose not to serve our country.
Former Republican Majority Leader, Trent Lott, chose not to serve our country.
Republican Bush official Elliot Abrams, convicted in Iran contra, chose not to serve our country.
Attorney General John Ashcroft received 7 deferments.
Jeb Bush chose not to serve our country.
Bush's chief political guru, Karl Rove, chose not to serve our country.
Republican moralizer in chief, Bill betting Bennett, chose not to serve our country.
Sean Hannity chose not to serve our country, but has no trouble denegrating any Democrat veteran.
Bill O'Reilly chose not to serve our country.
Rush Limbaugh got out because of a “pilonidal cyst” (read: boil on his butt), but has no trouble denegrating any Democrat veteran.
Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and serial adulterer, chose not to serve our country.
Co-leader neocon and Iraqi war booster, Paul Wolfowitz, had no trouble sending others to die in war, but chose not to serve our country himself.
Co-leader neocon Iraqi booster, Richard Perle, also had no trouble sending others to die and get maimed in Iraq, but chose not to serve our country himself.
And Dick – doing business with the enemy, I had better things to do than serve my country – Cheney, seems to have received his last deferment by bedding down his wife and making her with child.
Democrats who served: Representative Dick Gephardt, Representative Bonoir, Senator Tom Daschle, Vice President Al Gore, Senator Bob Kerry, Senator Inouye, Senator John Kerry, Representative Charles Rangel, Senator Max Cleland, Senator Teddy Kennedy, Senator Tom Harkin, Senator Jack Reed, Senator Fritz Hollings, Boswell, Peterson, Thompson, McBridge, Pete Stark, Gray Davis... Senator George McGovern, Senator John Glenn, Vice President Walter Mondale, and, except for Ike, President Jimmy Carter, who served more years in the service than any other president.
Of course, there are many Democrats who didn’t serve our country, including President Bill Clinton.
However, Democrats aren’t the ones VILIFYING real VETERANS.
That would be the Bush-Cheney team, sanctioned by our “Mission Accomplished” commander in chief and his draft dodging Dick.
And what about George W. Bush’s service record, WHICH HE IS LYING ABOUT ON HIS RESUME?
Frankly, no one knows for sure.
There are missing, secret and scrubbed files.
And the White House won’t let anyone talk about it.
