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Who Performed Military Service
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]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
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
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
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
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Trolls and drive-by insults
[Read the article: Who are you, Anonymous?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Are you kidding? Compared to the old NYT political forums, Salon is tame.
I haven't gotten a single death threat here, and the right-wingers here don't seem to feel free enough to promise to exterminate Democrats and anybody else who gets in the way of the Bush Regime.
You'd be amazed at the things that have been posted just on the Krugman forum, much less the dreaded Maureen Dowd forum:
"It's a heads up that you've come to the attention of some people who have a lot to lose.
"I've said to much already."
pez_rules - 9:30 PM ET November 5, 2004 (#16523 of 16590)
Religion is a tool to control the masses. We of the state can use it to our own ends. We are legion.
pez_rules - 11:26 AM ET November 7, 2004
http://forums.nytimes.com/top/opinion/readersopinions/forums/editorialsoped/todayseditorials/index.html?offset=18968&fid=.f67c632/18968
pez_rules - 8:12 PM ET November 7, 2004 (#17127 of 17409)
The pain of the left is the icing on the cake.
I am fully in agreement that they will be tracked down and intimidated or destroyed. That was the word that came down.
Whether that is "right" or not is a different question. I do not worry about that aspect.
http://forums.nytimes.com/top/opinion/readersopinions/forums/editorialsoped/todayseditorials/index.html?offset=19388&fid=.f67c632/19388
Honestly, guys, count your blessings. I expected the Radical Right to roaming the streets with Bush's tanks by now, looking for librul victims.
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Proving a point.
[Read the article: Who are you, Anonymous?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Calling them misogynists and rapists and wife abusers and trolls just confirms their point and the points of others here that Salon's readers are not as open minded as we would like to think, and that we do insist on and enforce a uniformity of thought and opinion.
--Anonymous
Oh really?
Who are you, Anonymous?
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Cheney, minion of darkness.
[Read the article: Run, Dick, run]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is the Unitary Executive himself mulling a run?
I hope to God not, and I'm an atheist.
With enough brainwashed conservative voters and rigged voting machines you can do anything, and he's got the Great Right-Wing Noise Machine bought and paid for besides. Don't be surprised if he still manages Great Media Support to win even though his ratings are in the teens.
You don't just write off an Ultimate Corporatist like Cheney, no matter how deeply he's been exposed as a greedy militaristic con man.