Why do Republicans hate REAL combat veterans?

[BadBoyBenny]

that's the truth

[playerfl]

republicans are pro-military, but they don't like veterans, discounting anti-war tales by those who were there, and then cutting their benefits whenever possible.

republicans are pro-free market, as long as their companies get special treatment and their jobs are not at risk.

republicans are pro-small government except that the government has increased in size ( both money and people ) under EVERY republican administration since Nixon.

I could go on and on, except the democrats are actually a little bit worse.

[The once and future king]

Since when is GWB a war veteran ?

[elwoodblues]

I don't remember any vitriol toward Dole. I don't remember much negative about Dole at all --- Just because the Dems voted for Clinton above Dole doesn't mean that they despise Dole.

[cardcounter0]

The Free Market works and is a driving force behind innovation and improvements, except for one product --Drugs.

For some reason, the Free Market totally fails. The Large Drug Companies must be protected by all kinds of laws. Prices must be fixed. People can not be allowed to freely buy the product, but must pay other people to give them approval to buy, and then they can only buy from people special licensed to sell, and then at rates set by the government.

In fact, laws must be passed to prevent people from going to other countries and purchasing prescription drugs. Canada, for instance, has rational pricing of drugs, and who knows what kind of voodoo substances those silly Canadians are buying from the Large Drug Companies in a free market? Americians must be protected from this menance.

The Drug Companies would all shut down and refuse to produce old products, and would certainly never invent new products, if they were forced to compete in a free market.

Of course, the exact opposite happens for every other industry and product, but Prescription Drugs are different. They have the campain contributions to prove it.

[cardcounter0]

A veteran who lost both legs and his right arm to the blast of a grenade in Viet Nam has been called a traitor and compared to a Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden and even mocked by a suggestion he foolishly received his grave injuries on the way to a beer party -- as happened to Senator Max Cleland.

A veteran who spent 5 years of his youth in one of history’s most infamous POW camps, tortured and abused, one day found himself whispered about as having been a "weak-minded coward" driven mad by his ordeal and perhaps even a Communist agent —as happened to Senator John McCain.

The scars of some veterans are being re-examined lately, with charges that they are really not that big or bad after all, inferring that the veterans who bear them are unworthy of the Purple Heart medal they were awarded - as has happened to John Kerry.

Today’s soldiers serving their country in the field should note well that what really matters these days is not the fact that they served honorably – indeed, one can stay stateside voluntarily during a war one fervently supports and only fly training missions on obsolete aircraft over one’s home state and be said to have served "honorably".

It doesn’t matter if you served courageously, or with distinction, or that you were maimed, or disabled fighting for your country – what matters these days is that you think as you ought to think. Be aware that your opinions will be monitored for correctness, and that your attitude will be noted…and you better get it right or else.

Many have called for their fellow Americans to "Support Our Troops!", but why aren’t these same individuals or organizations denouncing the defamation of veterans like Kerry, McCain, or Cleland? Where’s the outrage? I don’t think it’s because the Viet Nam war is ancient history, as veterans of the Greatest Generation, like "Flyboy" George HW Bush, are still regularly praised for their bravery in combat service.

Could it be politics? What all the veterans I have named above have in common is having run against GW Bush in an election or having opposed some aspect of his policies. In the past, it was alleged to be the shameful behavior of the antiwar movement, but who is spitting on veterans now?"

[Taxman]

Nice try, but you have to join the military in the first place to be a deserter.

[Rooster71]

[ QUOTE ]
because there great leaders were cowards.

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In my opinion, Dick Cheney's excuse tops the list of all Republican chicken-hawk coward draft-dodging excuses. He successfully avoided the draft numerous times. When asked recently about why he didn't serve in Vietnam, he said "I had better things to do." And this man is the architect of the war in Iraq!