Posted on 05/16/2021 7:22:09 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
It seems wasted effort to say it. But you should be ashamed of yourself. Call it what you want, but when you said they were misguided, that is a judgement.
You think you are smarter.
But people like you started us down the path to the trash we see everywhere today.
My sister did our genealogy and while I was looking it over, I noticed something. My dad went to WWII as soon as he turned 18, right after getting married in 1941. My oldest sister was born 9 months later. Meanwhile, my uncle, dad’s brother, was a couple of years older and never had kids. He built a homemade travel trailer from wood and moved to FL in 1939. Looks like uncle Larry was a draft dodger.
Carter pardoning the Vietnam draft dodgers is what emboldened the militant Leftists in this country.
It is the attitude Antifa counts on when they riot and destroy inner city businesses, knowing that they won’t be prosecuted for their actions.
When did we bomb Iran’s infrastructure and put them back in the stone age?
I have every bit of standing to judge Jimmy Carter and his idiotic actions. If that’s a problem, so be it.
That’s as cracked as saying if it feels good do it
Carter gave us Reagan. If you want to complement him, that’s it.
And an act of Congress "authorizing military action at the President's discretion in [insert name of Third World sh!t-hole here]" isn't going to cut it, either.
Not to mention all the satellite photos of trucks crossing into Syria pre-invasion. What do people think were in those trucks, computers? Coffee pots? Slinkies?
Especially since it wasn’t too many years later that Assad used chemical weapons during the Syrian civil war. The wisdom of the Iraq invasion can certainly be debated, but lack of WMDs was not the reason for not invading.
I can agree with that. We haven’t had a legitimate war declaration since WWII. And that’s a travesty.
OTOH, we know the real reason the dodgers did it. Because they were the first generation to majorly despise America and be 100% selfish, wanting only to party.
Absolutely.
http://www.morethings.com/mp3/the_minutemen_are_turning_in_their_graves-stonewall_jackson.mp3
The Minutemen Are Turning in Their Graves by Stonewall Jackson
Agreed, and the Senate never should of ratified SEATO.
http://www.morethings.com/mp3/vietnam_blues-dave_dudley-written-kris_kristofferson.mp3
Vietnam Blues by Dave Dudley (written by Kris Kristofferson)
There were legitimate reasons for someone to dodge the draft during the Vietnam War.
If I had been a young adult in the late 1960s and early 1970s I probably would have been a draft dodger, too -- but not because I despised America. I just have no confidence in the honesty, integrity and intentions of the people in the U.S. government who get us involved in these stupid wars.
A government should never, ever put its people in a situation where law-abiding citizens are drafted against their will to fight a war in a sh!t-hole halfway around the world ... while people like John Kerry and Jane Fonda conspire with the "enemy" overseas and wage a propaganda campaign against the U.S. military here at home without facing any consequences.
In the long term, one of the worst consequences of the Vietnam War here in the U.S. was that the draft dodgers were vindicated by history.
Thank you for serving!
Cannot believe this is even posted on Free Republic
Thank you for slapping every man and woman that has served in the face. GG.
It’s the perfect forum for this. We are conservatives. We are more open and need to be our own worst critics. We learned a lot from the Viet Nam experience. At least we did until Saddam thought he could kick our ass.
“The author is nothing more than a chicken liver draft dodger”-Air Force-1971-1975’
“When did we bomb Iran’s infrastructure and put them back in the stone age?” We didn’t. Since ‘79 they’ve been at war with us and we’ve yet to pay them back. Solomini was good.
‘Carter gave us Reagan. If you want to complement him, that’s it.’ BINGO!
“I just have no confidence in the honesty, integrity and intentions of the people in the U.S. government who get us involved in these stupid wars.” 59k had asa result.
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