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A Different Sort of Meaning for ’The Have’s and Have Not’s’.

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 14 December 2005
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Wars and conflicts Parties USA

I recently obtained a list of ‘people-in-high-places’ and their own particular brand of military sacrifice.
Personally, I found it to be ... well ... telling.

List as provided by SergeantD,
posted on www.huffingtonpost.com, November 13, 2005
 
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.
 
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.
* Tim Hutchison: 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.* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
* 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.

Submitted by: DragonFly
Blog - Politically Outspoken
– http://politicallyoutspoken.blogspot.com

Forum posts

  • Just reading that list enraged me.

    I’m not advocating military enlistment, but those guys who avoided the military are the loudest cheerleaders for the war.

    What a bunch of hypocrites!

  • Well, I don’t know why it should enrage you or anyone else; or I should say, that it would enrage someone who does not know the history of the US and it’s leadership.

    But be that as it may, I would not give the people who served in the armed forces any more value than those who didn’t. It matters little that they served or not. The wars that the US has purchased over time were done to benefit the US. Whether it be for the cola bean in SW Asia or for oil or any other resource both Dems and Repubs have always sided for war.

    Another good example are the "Banana Republics" that were set up in Central America. Wars and low level conflicts under the rubric of fighting against communism were fought for companies like United Fruit, Dole and Kraft. Such that the plantations and it’s output were directed to the US, while the populations of those countries just slaved away.

    A lot of people now blame the dumbification of the American public as one of the causes for the initiation and continuation of the Iraqi war but Americans were always "dumb" in this regard and always have hated peoples who are not like them and allowed the conflict to occur under the most dobious reasons.

    The history to cover is much deeper and complex than can be allowed in replies to posts... But a true student can put in the effort and see what horrors the American public accepts, tolerates and accomodates.

  • WOW, nice research. It would be nice to build a GET-the-FACTS website about all the significant players in the information - propaganda wars. I bet you could after a while and enought collected info PREDICT what kind of a PERSON a canidate will be if ELECTED by just keeping track of the experiences and voting, records, etc.. thats these people participate in and TO WHOS BENIFIT.

    It would be even more interesting to discover what BUSINESSES they were INVESTED in as almost none of these people actually perform any sort of WORK or BENIFICIAL SERVICE TO SOCIETY. Why do we FOLLOW the money making FOOLS, who fool us into believing their stories about 9/11 and Oklahoma city, when you research the business and BANKING connections like I have you will and can almost create a CHART of FEATURES and ACTIONS and if you plug a person and thier history into it --- you can with a great deal of accuracy without even asking them any questions discover where their MOTIVES are and WHAT LIES and mind control programming is in their operational in their HEADS. Just use Psych 101 , Grandmas Horse Sense, and a who lot of OPEN mindedness and well the stuff starts to look like you are LIVING IN ONE GREAT LIE.

    Some things to REMEMBER:
    1. The Media is MIND CONTROL (Thats why JOURNALISM has been replaced by Advertising Corporate Controlled PR firms.) (They are in the MIND CONTROL business to SELL you everything from FETISH videos, to River Dancing, to Arab Terrorists... )
    2. Whom ever YOU ALLOW to CONTROL the MONEY system you allow to OWN you.
    3. Both the Assasination of Abraham Lincoln and JFK where banking and control of money related.
    4. Everything since 9/11 is part of a Global TakeOver grab by the HIGHLY financied and INTELLIGENCE operated
    PSY OPS Terror Campaign against the working and creative people of the world BY the Elitist Oligarchs that see
    the Information Age of The Internet as Their ULTIMATE DOWNFALL and HAVE A SERIOUS NEED TO CONTROL THE
    information that is MOTIVATIONAL in Society.
    5. If you want DEMOCRACY then the center of your SOCEITY better be EDUCATION and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT — NOT
    70 cents out of every TAX - DOLLAR going to the World Bank Owned and Control Military Industrial Complex — The primary investment group profiting from the "War On Terror"...
    6. Iraq is an OIL producing country. The #1 rated high grade investment for the last 10 years HAS BEEN PETROLEUM and DRILLING and PIPELINE COMPANIES. What a coincidence??? Hmmm????
    7. Believe NOTHING. QUESTION everything. THINK for YOURSELF. READ. WRITE. and DO your OWN ARITHMETIC!

    That is ALL. And as my Kindergarten teacher taught me - The most important thing in life is to figure out yourself when you figure out what is REAL. She was RIGHT!

    Eat some Fresh Fruit and Veggies! Grow a Garden and Reject the FATALISM of HUMANITY as the EVETUAL OUTCOME of the WORLD. That is the WORST MIND CONTROL OF ALL. And it is Stupid and NOT ONE DAMN BIT OF FUN!

    The World and The Working Creativie People in it get along JUST fine, its all the LAWYERS in the SERVICE of the BANKERS and the POLITICIANS that are SCHEMING to FCUK us ALL in the name of MONEY. Lets STOP giving CREEDANCE to these LEGAL POLITICIANS that use the IDEALS of LAW to DECIEVE, DEFRAUD, SEND TO WAR, and EXTORT all in the NAME of their own selfish SHORTSIGHTED mind control agenda. Lets stop FOLLOWING the idiots and DEVISE and CARRY out our own social EVOLUTION without the WAR profiteering bankers, corporations, and fatalistic religions and world views demonizing all of humanity and its behaviors into GOOD and EVIL, so they have excuses they NEED to MENTALL LEAD US INTO an SELF EXPLOITIVE venture they desire. We elected those that were OFFERED to US by the ELITE, and I am sure it was not for OUR BENIFIT.

    peace and have a REALITY oriented MIND SET for action for SELF PRESERVATION from IDIOTS and MISINFORMATION!