Democrats are brave, Republicans are cowards. Here's the PROOF!

This was sent to me by my mother, and she got it from an email list at her work.

Democrats:
Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan.
1971 as an army
journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor,
Vietnam.
Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze
Star with Combat V,
Purple Hearts.
Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze
Star, Korea.
Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star &
Bronze Star, Vietnam.
Paraplegic from war injuries. Served in Congress.
Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve,
1968-74.
Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army
Reserve 1979-91.
Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and
seven campaign
ribbons.
Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam,
DFCs, Bronze Stars,and
Soldier's Medal.
Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart,
Silver Star and
Legion of Merit.
Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple
Heart.
Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in
Vietnam; Bronze
Star with Combat V.
Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
Chuck Robb: Vietnam
Howell Heflin: Silver Star
George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments.
Entered draft but
received #311.
Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and AirMedal
with 18 Clusters.
Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII.
Saved by Raoul
Wallenbe! rg. ;

Republicans -- and these are the guys sending people
to war:
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.
Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man
who attacked Max
Cleland's patriotism.
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.
Jon! Kyl: did not serve.
Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
Christopher Cox: did not serve.
Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight
instructor.
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.
Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-
combat role making
movies.
B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting
was over in Korea.
Phil Gramm: did not serve.
John McCain: Vietnam POW, Silver Star, Bronze Star,
Legion of Merit,
Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
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 as quarterback.
Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National
Guard.&n! bsp;
Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
George Pataki: did not serve.
Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
John Engler: did not serve.
Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.

Pundits & Preachers
Sean Hannity: did not serve.
Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal
cyst.' i.e boil on his ass)
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.
Ted Nugent: did not serve. (He only shoots at things
that don't shoot
back.)


THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING, AS THEY SAY. Send this to all your Republican, Nintendo-fantasy, warmongering friends.

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Service Records – Comparing Democrats To Republicans

Democrats

David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72
Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, etc
Jimmy Carter: Lt. Commander in the Navy 1946-53
Wesley Clark: Army 1966-2000, Vietnam, Silver star, purple heart
Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver/Bronze stars, Vietnam
Bill Clinton: Did not serve (opposed war)
Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72
Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze star
Michael Dukakis: Army 1955-57
John Edwards: Did not serve
Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71
John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs; Air Medal w/18 Clusters
Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam as journalist
Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74
Howell Heflin: Silver star
Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze star
Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII
Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53
Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam
John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver/Bronze stars, purple hearts
Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII
Jim McDermott: Navy 1968-70
George McGovern: Silver star & DFC during WWII
Zell Miller: Marine Corps, 1953-56
Walter Mondale: Army 1951-53
Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver star, etc
Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze star, Korea
Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-79; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91
Chuck Robb: U.S. Marine Corps, 1961-70, Vietnam
Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
Mike Thompson: Staff Sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart
John Conyers – US Army


Republicans

Spencer Abraham: Did not serve
Eliot Abrams: Did not serve
Richard Armitage: Navy, three tours in Vietnam
John Ashcroft: Did not serve
Roy Blunt: Did not serve
Michael Bloomberg: Did not serve
George H.W. Bush: Youngest Navy pilot in WW II; awarded DFC
George W. Bush: Texas Air Nat. Guard; didn't take physical; suspended from flying
Jeb Bush: Did not serve
Saxby Chambliss: Did not serve. Attacked Cleland's patriotism
Dick Cheney: Did not serve
Christopher Cox: Did not serve
Tom DeLay: Did not serve
Bob Dole: Army in WWII, Bronze star, two purple hearts
Bob Dornan: Enlisted after fighting was over in Korea
John Engler: Did not serve
Douglas Feith: Did not serve
Gerald Ford: Lt. Commander, Navy in WWII
Bill Frist: Did not serve
Newt Gingrich: Did not serve
Rudy Giuliani: Did not serve
Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer
Phil Gramm: Did not serve
Chuck Hagel: Served in Vietnam, two Bronze stars and purple heart
Dennis Hastert: Did not serve
Tim Hutchison: Did not serve
Jack Kemp: Did not serve. "Knee problem," continued in NFL for 8 years
Jon Kyl: Did not serve
Trent Lott: Did not serve
Richard Lugar: Intelligence officer in Navy 1957-60
John McCain: POW in Vietnam, Legion of Merit, Silver star, DFC, many more
Mitch McConnell: Did not serve
John McHugh: Did not serve
George Pataki: Did not serve
Richard Perle: Did not serve
Colin Powell: 35 years in Army, 4-star general
Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard
Ronald Reagan: Served in WWII making movies in Hollywood
Tom Ridge: Army in Vietnam, Bronze star
Dana Rohrabacher: Did not serve
Karl Rove: Did not serve
Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor
Rick Santorum: Did not serve
Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base
Richard Shelby: Did not serve
JC Watts: Did not serve
Vin Weber: Did not serve
Paul Wolfowitz: Did not serve
Andy Card – no service
Condi Rice – no service
John Bolton – no service
Don Nichols – no service



Pundits, Preachers, and Judges

Bill Bennett: Did not serve
Wolf Blitzer: Did not serve
Pat Buchanan: Did not serve
William Buckley: Army in WWII
Charlie Daniels: Did not serve
Lou Dobbs: Did not serve
Paul Gigot: Did not serve
Sean Hannity: Did not serve
Bill Kristol: Did not serve
Jim Lehrer: U.S. Marine Corps
Rush Limbaugh: Did not serve
Chris Matthews: Did not serve
Michael Medved: Did not serve
Ted Nugent: Did not serve
Bill O'Reilly: Did not serve
Dan Rather: Army Reserves
Ralph Reed: Did not serve
Michael Savage: Did not serve
Antonin Scalia: Did not serve
Kenneth Starr: Did not serve
Clarence Thomas: Did not serve
John Wayne: Did not serve
George Will: Did not serve
Roger Ailes (Fox) – no service
Anne Coulter – no service
Fred Barnes – no service
Gary Bauer – no service
Neil Bortz – no service

And to attempt to be fair to Tweety, he did join the Peace Corps...
not military service, but service of a kind.
Don't know why I am trying to be fair to him; he's become a pretty big whore for the Reich Wing. Must have been too long since he worked for Carter...the integrity has worn off, it seems.

is known as THE CHICKENHAWKS.

They wave the flag, call for war but never serve. They let folks like you and me put on the unif0orms and go in harms way.

Those who support the chickenhawks aren't the ones signing up to do the fighting & the dying.

I am copying that to word.
Consider: This (serving in the military) is not a measure of the person all by itself mind you. If these were true
pacifists they would have my attention. These, for the most part, are people who
use war hysteria to send our young men and women off into harms way.
Most recently they did it for no reason at all! They all lied.
I really need a good PC word for "Pukes" because I am too polite to
call them pukes even though 'pukes' is what they are.
Oh wait a minute. I just remembered.
We can call them REPUBLICANS
...and yeah yeah I understand there are decent honest
Republicans out there but all I can say is look at the company
you keep.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

less.

Bob Dole to the Repug side as someone who served. He's their poster boy, and they obviously need one since so many never served themselves........:eyes:

It never hurts to repeat this often. Sooo many fundies have no idea about this. We should be screaming it from the rooftops.

:kick:

But what exactly did Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm, JC Watts, Jack Kemp, Dan Quayle, Rudy Giuliani, George Pataki, John Engler, Lindsey Graham, or Arnold Schwarzenegger have to do with sending anyone to war (or for that matter, many of the democrats listed either)? I'd like to see a list of the people in congress who actually voted for and against the IWR and their military history. Maybe I'll start working on one.

What exactly indeed????

It is another to actually be in a position to do something about it. IMHO, it makes a better case to show the people who actually voted for the IWR and the funding that have no military service as opposed to just naming conservatives. In someone's post, Ronald Reagan was mentioned as making movies during WWII. What does that have to do with this at all? I don't recall any major wars during Reagan's administration, nor was he in any position to advocate for the current fiasco. The Administration members records is a great example of the point to be made here, mentioning an out-of-work politician or someone who really has no (or very little) say in the war like a governor obscures the issue, which is that the same people driving the war have never spent time in the military. To this end, the people in congress should also be held accountable for the votes they've made.

If the point of this list is just to say that liberals join the military and conservatives do not, then I don't think this list is going to carry any weight with anyone who is not already of that thinking, since I'm sure conservatives would be able to add lots of repukes that spent time in the military and democrats who did not.

He had that posted on his site 6 mo. ago - I can't find a link now - they may have taken it down...

Democrats voting for Roberts:

Baucus (D-MT)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Carper (D-DE)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Feingold (D-WI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Wyden (D-OR)
source: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00245

My point is, we can try to feel good all we want about Democrats. But until they start to show a backbone as a party all this feel good stuff is bullshit.

(sorry i'm not feeling very cheered today.)