It's finally time for Jim Webb and the other veterans who have served honorably and valiantly, whether it was counting blivets or winning the Navy Cross to finally start pointing out the fact that their opponents who avoided Military Service are fucking loathsome human beings, and one of the reasons is that they (the opponent) avoided Military Service, usually with every fiber of their being. (See: Five Deferments Dick)
They are not always completely loathsome for having avoided service, but for thinking that their brand of self-serving patriotism somehow gives them license to attack Vets of any stripe. And if, in the process of pointing out these loathsome, self-serving pricks are well, just that, it comes out that they are dickless, self-indulgent cowards, well so be it.
No more swiftboating. No. More. I am sick of watching men and women who served honorably having to tip-toe around their opponents choice to not perform military service, when their Chickenhawk/Yellow Elephant opponents seem to have no compunction at smearing them for anything that they think will give them an advantage, especially based on military service, or any related facts.
posted by Jo Fish on 10.28.06 at 05:13 PM
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That's why the Rethugs proudly serve in the Rump Rangers.
The GOP, America's Fifth Column.
Buzz Meeks
posted by: Buzz Meeks on 10.28.06 at 08:18 PM [permalink]
It would appear that some Dems have finally found their backbones. Repugs may try to swiftboat veteran candidates, but the candidates are NOT John Kerry and this is NOT 2004 anymore. Guys like Jim Webb refuse to be branded as traitors, cowards, or whatever else the GOP can think of to call them. This is starting to look like our year, Jo. Even rural "values" voters are sick and tired of the GOP's bullshit, if the polls can be believed. The only thing I'm worried about is vote fraud on a national scale. Something about Karl Rove's seemingly uninformed statement that the GOP will retain the House and Senate has me leery.
First, as a vet and military retiree, let me say I was against going into Iraq because I saw it as unnecessary and a drain from the real battle taking place in Afganistan. I felt then, as I do now, that it was more of an attempt to position the US to have a military prescense to safeguard oil supplies. To call me a traitor because of this position is an opinion, not a fact. That the administration has mishandled their 'adventure' in Iraq is a fact, not an opinion. I'll begin to believe the neccesity of our prescence in Iraq when the children of the rich and powerful are fighting and dying for the safety and wellbeing of the country they owe so much to... and not until then!
