hahahaha! I'm right there with you!

I love this country.

When I wear red , white and blue people assume I support the enemies of the constitution. I want my flag back .

Right On Disclaimer!

I gotta be on somebody's "list"!

Oh SHIT! IRS!!!! "Watch List" for disruptive thinkers? OH NO! Psychic violence on the 11th level!!!! You will be hunted down and "terrorized" by your fears!

This info is several years old, but the names are still relevant. Interesting data, huh?

Piscean Amber

Here's something interesting to consider:

Who Served:

Prominent Republicans:

•Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - avoided the draft, did not serve.

•Majority Leader Dick Armey- avoided the draft, did not serve.

•Majority Whip Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve. "So many minority youths had volunteered ... that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself."

•Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott - avoided the draft, did not serve.

•GW Bush - decided that a six-year Nat'l Guard commitment really means four years. Still says that he's "been to war." Huh?

NOTE: The S.O.B. should have been court martialed, but then... daddy was President.

•VP Cheney - several deferments, the last by marriage (in his own words, "had other priorities than military service")

•Att'y Gen. John Ashcroft - sought deferment to teach business ed at SW Missouri State

•Karl Rove - avoided the draft, did not serve, too busy being a Republican.

•Former Speaker Newt Gingrich - avoided the draft, did not serve

•Former President Ronald Reagan - served in a noncombat role. He later seems to have confused his role as an actor playing a tail gunner with the real thing.

•"B-1" Bob Dornan - avoided Korean War combat duty by enrolling in college acting classes (Orange County Register article)

•Phil Gramm - avoided the draft, did not serve, four (?) student deferments

•Senator John McCain - McCain's naval honors include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. Why did the Bush campaign smear him so? At least Senators Cleland (D-GA), Kerry (D-MA), Kerrey (D-NE), Robb (D-VA) and Hagel (R-NE) defended him.

•Former Senator Bob Dole - an honorable man. http://www.bobdole.org/bio/wwII.html

•Chuck Hagel - two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star, Vietnam. http://www.senate.gov/~hagel/Information/bio.htm

•Duke Cunningham - nominated for the Medal of Honor, received the Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, fifteen Air Medals, the Purple Heart, and several other decorations http://www.house.gov/cunningham/about_duke.htm#Biography

Prominent Democrats:

•House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt - Served his country in uniform, 1965-71

•House Minority Whip David Bonior - Served his country in uniform, 1968-72

•Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle - Served his country in uniform, 1969-72

•Former Vice President Al Gore - Served his country in uniform, 1969-71; recipient of Vietnam Service Medal

•Bob Kerrey... Democrat... Congressional Medal of Honor, Vietnam

•Daniel Inouye... Democrat... Congressional Medal of Honor, World War II

•John Kerry... Democrat...Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam

•Charles Rangel...Democrat... Bronze Star, Korea

•Max Cleland... Democrat... Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam

•Howell Heflin... Democrat... Silver Star

•Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) - U.S. Army, 1951-1953.

•Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) - U.S. Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.

•Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA) - two tours in Vietnam, two Distinguished Flying Crosses as a helicopter pilot, two Bronze Stars, and the Soldier's Medal. http://www.afji.com/mags/1997/Jan/VietVets.html

•Ambassador "Pete" Peterson, Air Force Captain, POW, Democratic congressman, Ambassador to Viet Nam, and recipient of the Purple Heart, the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit http://www.af.mil/news/Apr1997/n19970414_970430.html

•Rep. Mike Thompson, D-CA: served in combat with the U.S. Army as a staff sergeant/platoon leader with the 173rd Airborne Brigade; was wounded and received a Purple Heart. http://www.house.gov/mthompson/bio.html

Did you know that W's grandfather (Prescott Bush, a U.S. Senator) was almost tried for treason for dealing with the enemy (Nazi Germany).

I love this quote. It sounds just like the present administration, doesn't it?

“People can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. . . All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the

country to danger.It works the same way in any country."

~ Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering, Nuremberg

For PisceanAmber

Yes, I DO see the connection!