A different sort of meaning for 'The have's and have not's'

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Sunday, January 29. 2006
A different sort of meaning for 'The have's and have not's'.
---It speaks for itself---
Democrats First:
- 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.It gets better - keep reading.

Democrats
- 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.
- 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 WWII.
- Bill Clinton: did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but received #311.
- Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy. Graduate of Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.- Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
- John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with 18 Clusters.
- Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII.
Now For the Republicans:
- 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.- Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.- 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 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.- 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 Air National Guard tour of duty; 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 making movies.- Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.- John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.-Phil Gramm: did not serve.- 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.- 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.- 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.Please steal this list for your website and/or blogYour local newspaper editor may be interested in it as well.
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Those who have not served are the ones that yell the loudest for war.
#1 Anon on 2006-02-02 09:11 (Reply)
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