The Cellar - View Single Post

kaylar · 04-15-2006, 01:50 PM

It is usual, In America, that the President (or Vice President, or Secretary of State) is an experienced soldier. Whether a General or an Officer, it is basically
how a nation which has engaged in war, virtually non-stop since 1776 administrates its government.

This is the first time that the United States has a President who can not even be honoured with the term 'draft dodger' or 'anti-war' due to his avoidance of what he felt was an unjust war, but a President who connived to avoid fighting in Viet Nam, not because of political/moral reasons, but cowardice.

It takes a lot of courage to have Protested the War in Vietnam. It takes cowardice to have sat back and 'supported' the war, but not with one's blood.

That all three; Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld avoided the draft while supporting the war made them unfit for office.

That all three have absolutely no idea what it is like to be a soldier, no idea
what a war demands of a man, of a nation, but could dishonestly send people to die for an unjust cause, based on a known lie, profit through the war, Halliburton, Oil Prices, and supply the cheapest garbage to the soldiers who are fighting in Iraq, requires an entirely different vocabulary.

04-15-2006, 01:50 PM	#20
kaylar Resident-in-Training Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 7	OLD SOLDIERS....NOT It is usual, In America, that the President (or Vice President, or Secretary of State) is an experienced soldier. Whether a General or an Officer, it is basically how a nation which has engaged in war, virtually non-stop since 1776 administrates its government. This is the first time that the United States has a President who can not even be honoured with the term 'draft dodger' or 'anti-war' due to his avoidance of what he felt was an unjust war, but a President who connived to avoid fighting in Viet Nam, not because of political/moral reasons, but cowardice. It takes a lot of courage to have Protested the War in Vietnam. It takes cowardice to have sat back and 'supported' the war, but not with one's blood. That all three; Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld avoided the draft while supporting the war made them unfit for office. That all three have absolutely no idea what it is like to be a soldier, no idea what a war demands of a man, of a nation, but could dishonestly send people to die for an unjust cause, based on a known lie, profit through the war, Halliburton, Oil Prices, and supply the cheapest garbage to the soldiers who are fighting in Iraq, requires an entirely different vocabulary.