October 31, 2004
Chicken-Hawk Nation
Dennis Hastert: did not serve. Tom DeLay: did not serve. House Whip Roy Blunt: did not serve. Bill Frist: did not serve. Rudy Giuliani: did not serve. George Pataki: did not serve. Mitch McConnell: did not serve. Rick Santorum: did not serve. Trent Lott: did not serve. Dick Cheney: did not serve. John Ashcroft: did not serve. Jeb Bush: did not serve. Karl Rove: did not serve. Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve. Richard Perle: did not serve. Douglas Feith: did not serve. Eliot Abrams: did not serve. Christopher Cox: did not serve. Newt Gingrich: did not serve. Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) George W. Bush: six-year Nat'l Guard commitment. Gerald Ford: Navy, WWII Phil Gramm: did not serve. John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. Bob Dole: an honorable veteran. Chuck Hagel: two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star, Vietnam. Duke Cunningham: nominated for Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, Silver Stars, Air Medals, Purple Hearts. Jeff Sessions: Army Reserves, 1973-1986 JC Watts: did not serve. Tom Ridge: Bronze Star for Valor in Vietnam. Antonin Scalia: did not serve. Clarence Thomas: did not serve
Sean Hannity: did not serve. Rush Limbaugh: did not serve. 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. Bill Kristol: did not serve. Kenneth Starr: did not serve. Michael Medved: did not serve.
[Source: Monterey County Weekly, Sept. 16-22, 2004]
Posted by Eddie Tews at October 31, 2004 11:21 AM
Comments
Medgar Evers (WW II, Korea),Lyndon Johnson (first Congressman to volunteer for WW II), JFK (WW II, wounded),George McGovern (WW II),John Kerry (Viet Nam),Albert Gore, Jr. (Viet Nam)
BCB -- Posted by: Bijan on November 2, 2004 08:24 AM