Given their penchant for routine and grotesque hypocrisy, it should never surprise us that the craven crew in the Republican party, who claim above all else to support the troops and America's Veterans, are the first to Swiftboat them, cut their funding and ridicule them if they happen to be members of the Democratic party.
What's also politically interesting is that it's almost always the Republicans -- who seem to spend more time in prison cells for corruption than they do in the military and who generally avoid military service at every turn -- who embrace war, death and killing like Rush Limbaugh hugging up to his local pharmacist.
The Deck of Republican Chickenhawks:
George W. Bush: Went National Guard, checked the box marked "Do Not Volunteer for Overseas" on his application and then went AWOL.
Dick Cheney: "Had other priorities" like four student deferments.
Karl Rove: Avoided the draft. Many schools, no degrees.
Paul Wolfowitz: Avoided service through college deferment.
Condoleeza Rice: Chickenhawk enabler. Never served.
Tom DeLay: Chose to enlist in the war on cockroaches, fleas and termites as the owner of an exterminator business, rather than joining Kerry or Murtha in battling the Vietcong.
Newt Gingrich: Avoided Vietnam through college deferment.
Rudy Giuliani: Never served.
Sam Brownback: Never served.
Mitt Romney: Never served.
And let's not forget some of Malkin's colleagues from the GOP Barking Head Brigade:
Ann Coulter: Never served.
Rush Limbaugh: Got out of Vietnam due to an ingrown hair on his buttocks.
Bill O'Reilly: Avoided Vietnam through college deferment.
Sean Hannity: Never served -- though he talks tough.
So I'll ask the same question I have often asked in these scenarios: If you were in a war, with a firefight coming up and the crap about to really hit the fan, who would you rather have in your foxhole: Murtha, Kerry, Kennedy and even Chuck Hagel? Or Bush, Cheney, Rove and Gingrich?
I thought so.
What's also politically interesting is that it's almost always the Republicans -- who seem to spend more time in prison cells for corruption than they do in the military and who generally avoid military service at every turn -- who embrace war, death and killing like Rush Limbaugh hugging up to his local pharmacist.
The Deck of Republican Chickenhawks:
George W. Bush: Went National Guard, checked the box marked "Do Not Volunteer for Overseas" on his application and then went AWOL.
Dick Cheney: "Had other priorities" like four student deferments.
Karl Rove: Avoided the draft. Many schools, no degrees.
Paul Wolfowitz: Avoided service through college deferment.
Condoleeza Rice: Chickenhawk enabler. Never served.
Tom DeLay: Chose to enlist in the war on cockroaches, fleas and termites as the owner of an exterminator business, rather than joining Kerry or Murtha in battling the Vietcong.
Newt Gingrich: Avoided Vietnam through college deferment.
Rudy Giuliani: Never served.
Sam Brownback: Never served.
Mitt Romney: Never served.
And let's not forget some of Malkin's colleagues from the GOP Barking Head Brigade:
Ann Coulter: Never served.
Rush Limbaugh: Got out of Vietnam due to an ingrown hair on his buttocks.
Bill O'Reilly: Avoided Vietnam through college deferment.
Sean Hannity: Never served -- though he talks tough.
So I'll ask the same question I have often asked in these scenarios: If you were in a war, with a firefight coming up and the crap about to really hit the fan, who would you rather have in your foxhole: Murtha, Kerry, Kennedy and even Chuck Hagel? Or Bush, Cheney, Rove and Gingrich?
I thought so.
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