"The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology."
Now that we have remembered those Americans who served their country in combat, let's take a minute to remember a few who didn't:
ReplyDeleteGeorge W. Bush - Texas Air National Guard - (did not see combat).
Dick Cheney - did not serve.
John Ashcroft, Former US Attorney General - did not serve.
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense - served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as an aviator and flight instructor.
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State - did not serve.
Paul Wolfowitz, Former Deputy Secretary of Defense, did not serve.
Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy - Did not serve
Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer
Richard Perle, Member, Defense Policy Board (was chairman until 2003), Consultant to the Secretary (current) - did not serve.
George Tenet, Former CIA director - did not serve.
Rep. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House - did not serve.
Rep. Tom Delay, House Majority Leader - did not serve.
Rep. Roy Blunt, House Majority Whip (MO) - did not serve.
Dick Armey, Former House Majority Leader - did not serve.
Sen. Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader (TN) - did not serve.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Whip, (KY) - did not serve.
Sen. Rick Santorum, (PA), - did not serve.
Trent Lott, Former Senate Majority Leader (MS) - did not serve.
Jeb Bush, Florida Governor - did not serve.
Karl Rove - avoided the draft, did not serve.
Karen Hughes - did not serve.
Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the House - did not serve.
Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy, did not serve.
Bill Bennett, (author of Why We Fight), did not serve.
Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court Justice, did not serve.
Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice, did not serve.
Jack Kemp: Did not serve. "Knee problem," continued in NFL for 8 years
Rep. Henry Hyde, (IL) did not serve.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (GA) , US Senator (painted his opponent Max Cleland who lost both leg and an arm in Vietnam as soft on National Security) - did not serve.
Marc Racicot, (chairman of Bush's 2004 re-election campaign) - did not serve.
P. J. O'Rourke (author of Give War a Chance), did not serve.
Bill Kristol, editor The Weekly Standard, did not serve.
Bill O'Reilly, Fox News celebrity, did not serve.
Sean Hannity, Fox News celebrity, did not serve.
Wolf Blitzer, CNN Newsman. Did not serve.
David Horowitz, Right Wing media hit man. Did not serve.
Mike Savage, Right Wing media hit man, did not serve.
George Will, columnist, did not serve.
Ralph Reed, did not serve.
Jerry Falwell, preacher/politician, did not serve.
Ken Starr, did not serve.
Gary Bauer, politician/preacher, did not serve.
Alan Keyes, did not serve.
Roger Ailes, Fox News President, did not serve.
David Brooks, columnist, - did not serve.
Pat Buchanan, MSNBC commentator - did not serve.
Ann Coulter, writer & commentator - did not serve.
Lou Dobbs, CNN News anchor - did not serve.
Paul Gigot, Wall Street Journal editor - did not serve.
Brit Hume, Fox News anchor - did not serve.
Rush Limbaugh, Radio talk show host - did not serve.