On this Memorial Day
…let’s see the names of some of those who never served in the military.
* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.
* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom Delay: did not serve.
* Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
* Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Vin Weber: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* John Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve.
* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
* John M. McHugh: did not serve.
* JC Watts: did not serve.
* Jack Kemp: did not serve. “Knee problem,” although continued in NFL for 8 years.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
* John Engler: did not serve.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.
AND George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty.
Pundits & Preachers
* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a ‘pilonidal cyst.’)
* Bill O’Reilly: did not serve.
* Michael Savage: did not serve.
* George Will: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Paul Gigot: did not serve.
* Bill Bennett: did not serve.
* Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
* John Wayne: did not serve.
* Bill Kristol: did not serve.
* Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
* Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
* Clarence Thomas: did not serve.
* Ralph Reed: did not serve.
* Michael Medved: did not serve.
* Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
From An Other Greek.
Here’s what Juanita from The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon had to say about Tom Delay:
“I have a question about Sugar Land. I do not understand why “Congressman” Tom DeLay was the special “honored” guest speaker at the Sugar Land Memorial Day Celebration this morning. It was an insult to every veteran present. Tom DeLay is not a veteran because he’s a big chicken, too afraid to fight in a war. Tom DeLay left us without a Congressman for six months because he’s a big chicken, too afraid to fight Nick Lampson. Tom DeLay refuses to even live in his home in Sugar Land because he’s a big chicken, too afraid to face his neighbors.
Big ugly vicious hateful mean nasty wheelin’-dealin’ chicken. Shame on you, Sugar Land, for even letting him stand in front of veterans.
However, I wonder if Tom is spending this afternoon with his lawyers because it appears that there’s a third investigation underway. Brent Wilkes is another Jack Abramoff. Tom can really pick his friends, huh?
I guess every law enforcement agency in the country has to get in line to see who’s going to send him to prison first. This is just my opinion, but I think they ought to let some veterans escort Tom to prison.”
You forgot one: George Bush–Did not serve.