Posted on 01/19/2006 10:35:31 PM PST by NapkinUser
Better bring a lunch if you are going after Tom!
Meantime, the 500 or so republican veteran candidates won't get an inch of column space.
It's what they have to do to counter the repubs.
However, I believe the dems are working under a false premise .. so what else is new ..??
The false premise is that repubs will vote for anybody in a uniform. They think that because they think we're stupid. Fawcett already ran and LOST because he may have worn a uniform but he's not supportive of the war in Iraq which means he's also not supportive of his former fellow soldiers.
He couldn cut it. He was found out. He tried to act like a conservative - but it didn't work.
The dems are even more stupid than they think we are!!
Here`s the joke, by the election, most of the "war" in Iraq will be over. We will have won. Will we be gone and all the troops home, nah, but, as an issue, the "cut and run" bunch will be toast.
Well, they will certainly try to take credit for it, though.
On Dec. 20 [2005], Fawcett and Winter joined 35 Democratic veterans running for Congress at a strategy session in Washington, D.C.The veterans voted on a name for their emerging caucuslike campaign coalition: Veterans for a Secure America[call em Vets4SA for short...]. They also agreed that their military backgrounds should be promoted as credentials for leadership across the full spectrum of public policy, said Fawcett, an Air Force veteran of the 1991 Gulf War who has taught at the Air Force Academy and now works as a consultant to Northern Command in Colorado Springs. [still working for government because a job in the private sector eludes him?]
The group will reconvene in Washington in February to respond to President Bush's State of the Union address in a news conference on the steps of the Capitol, Winter said. An attorney and the former president of the grassroots liberal organizing group Be The Change, Winter spent 10 peacetime years in the Marine Corps and the Navy.
Fawcett said the group is not anti-war but is concerned about what appears to be a lack of a solid plan for the war in Iraq. [Translation: the group is concerned about the lack of a surrender plan] He said the group's military experience could be crucial in providing better leadership.
Notice that a lot of these guys left the service before they got their twenty but after a couple of re-enlistments?
'"Do we understand military and foreign affairs? You bet," Fawcett said. "Most of us have been to the point where you get a direct dose of military and foreign affairs, mostly in the category of small-caliber weapons."'
I hope he's kidding. Rep. Murtha's recent disgraceful performance shows that even 30-odd years of military experience is no guarantee of an understanding of "military and foreign affairs."
See also John Kerry (Viet Nam, Silver Star (self-awarded))
George McGovern (WWII, Distinguished Flying Cross)
Jimmah Carter (Cold warrier--USN SSBN officer)
Lyndon Johnson (WWII, barely, self-awarded Silver Star)
Wesley Clark (Supreme Commander - NATO and almost made history by initiating WWIII in the Balkans; now a moonbat)
Ingrate SOB's. Must be officers.
I did 21 years active and retired and I worked for a bunch of idiots so military service doesn't mean too much to me !
LOL! The logic of liberals... loons
Why do I predict more than 30 Democrats in Uniform LOSING at the polls and by Absentee Ballot from soldiers overseas?
Jack.
I do hope Republican Vets run.
Well I got my 30 years, with 4 SEA tours and I am smart enough to know that the GOP is serious about security and defense of this country.
My thinking exactly.
Patriotism was not one of the top 3 reasons for military duty for millions of servicemen/women. Being drafted, free college education or job security with full benefit package were the decision makers for many. How too often we have read or heard, "I joined, but, I didn't think I'd have to go fight in a war and risk of life. Had I known that, I'd never have joined."
The sad thing for me personally is knowing that military medals were handed out too readily to self-proclaimed war heros, later to find out, they were underserving or out-and-out fraudulant. It diminishes honor and glory. The pride, or lack, of doing military service is definately not the same for all.
What do military rats talk about? If they are truthful they can only agree with what we are doing in the war. Where does that get them? They will have to talk about other subjects and well....
If they lie about the war like that sack of shiite hackett they will get blown away very quickly. As I asked: What do military rats talk about?
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