Posted on 04/02/2006 10:53:25 PM PDT by ncountylee
Former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, in a speech last week at Chadron State College, was sharply critical of the war in Iraq, the Bush administration and the recent decision to ban nearly all abortions in his home state of South Dakota.
The 83-year-old McGovern spoke and answered questions for about 90 minutes, then, for about 30 minutes, autographed copies of several of the 10 books he has written.
Speaking on the abortion issue in South Dakota, McGovern said he has about the same disrespect for "a male-dominated Legislature that passes a law banning abortions as he does for a congress dominated by old men who dream up wars in which young men do the dying."
He noted that the legislators who passed the anti-abortion law in South Dakota seem to have little compassion for those who are put to death for their crimes or the fact that a human being dies of starvation every 3.5 seconds in the world. (Since 2001, McGovern has been the United Nations' global ambassador for world hunger.)
McGovern was attending the opening session of the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society's annual conference, where he spoke Thursday night about his 1968 book "A Time of War, a Time of Peace." He said he is proud to have served as a bomber pilot in World War II, noting that it was "absolutely essential" that Hitler was stopped.
"Hitler was an inhumane monster who killed 6 million Jews - most of them his own citizens - and was gobbling up one country after another," said McGovern, who was the pilot on 35 bombing missions. "I believed in that effort. We had no alternative."
But he said he has not been enthusiastic about any of the wars since World War II and, in particular, spoke against the Vietnam War
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Again, how many states did this guy NOT win?
How much of the vote did McGovern get? Didn't he get less than 30 electoral votes? That was 34 years ago. As others have said, McGovern is irrelevent. To just about anyone under 50, he's a complete unknown.
Men have every right to stop abortion, and the greatest respect to those who work to!
Their really is a reason why he is a "former" Senator. Just like Jimmy Carter he thinks what he has to say is important. Oh well, as long as he can listen to himself he has an audience.
Really? Reagan wouldn't make it? Go take your meds George.
Was this a message from the grave? I didn't know that fossil was still with us.
He got about 40% of the popular vote (29 million), to Nixon's 60% (41 million). Electoral college was a blow-out -- 528 Nixon, 17 McGovern. I think the only state he carried was Massachusetts. America was not real pleased with Nixon, but they were not quite ready for a communist president.
Oh yeah? If you're over 50 and were serving in Vietnam when this POC showed up in country and began bashing you, your allies, and your cause (starting to get my drift?) and thirty-four freaking years later is still up to the same old s#@t, you must have a cast iron gut like me to not hurl every time McGoo opens his liberal piehole.
BTW, I deployed 2003-04 in the GWOT, and am soon on the way again. F--- McGovern then and now!
Agreed. I cast my first vote for Nixon. I dispised McGovern, the anti-war Congress and the anti-war movement. When these bastards did what they did to our troops when they came home, it convinced me that I would NEVER support anything that leftists supported. I have considered McGovern to be a complete idiot and ass ever since. When looking at Kerry, it was deja vu all over again.
His time is long gone.
It's amazing to me that he could get 40%. Folks would have had to have been practically brain dead to prefer him over Nixon. I've never bought into the 'criminal' Nixon portrayal over the years either. I realize he was flawed. I know he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar, but after seeing what Clinton got away with, I am more convinced than ever that Nixon got the shaft because the MSM was able to manipulate things as they did. That's the same reason Clinton got off. Oh well, that's another topic.
One of my secondary beefs with these folks, was that they never expressed one bit of remorse for the millions they helped facilitate being persecuted and slaughtered due to their insistance that the U.S. lose the war. We had the north on their knees serveral times. Then Congress forced cease-fires which let the enemy resupply.
We should have removed Hanoi from the map and moved on to the next major city. After a few weeks of that, we'd have seen a different tune out of the North.
We stayed with strategic targets and play the game half-assed all too often. Our troops were sold out by Johnson/McNamera, the MSM and Congress. I've dispised leftists ever since.
Thanks for your service. I'm one person that has never forgotten what Jane Fonda did. I won't go see or let one of her movies into my home.
Most important word here: "Former."
Hey Georgie... get that Senate door knob out of your arse.
McGovern is still alive? Then again, was he ever...?
Silly old bugger!
Go ahead and criticize Bush. You lost 49 states against NIXON (a president I don't hold in high regard due to his expanding the federal government)
Yes, McGovern and Kerry are both as wrong as any pols can be. But don't insult McGovern by comparing him to Kerry. At least McGovern was a highly decorated Air Force officer and a legitimate American hero. Even his opponents concede that.
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