"...Feeley must have been carried away by the rhetoric he heard that day, as he used the debate to demand an apology from the president..
If the president didn't apologize to the Senate, Feeley said, "we'll play politics."
He continued, "I'll talk about every chickenhawk Republican running for office – who never served a day in uniform defending his nation – asking for your vote so they can go to Washington and send someone else's child to war."Reaction was immediate and negative.
Feeley may have counted on his three-year hitch in the Marine Corps as cover for such an inflammatory statement, but veterans and non-veterans alike weren't buying this tactic.
Not even Silver Star recipient Sen. John Kerry or Medal of Honor recipient Sen. Daniel Inouye try such fundamentally un-American rhetoric, and Feeley's three years as an electronics technician in California, Washington, D.C. and Okinawa, though honorable, hardly armors him to the point that he can use rhetoric that combat veterans eschew..." - Hugh Hewitt
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