Crooks and Liars comment thread:
"For all that are interested...
Here is a partial list of those who DID NOT SERVE but speak out strongly for sending others to war: Cheney (5 deferrments), Hastert, DeLay, Blunt, Frist, Mitch McConnell, Santorum, Lott, Ashcroft (7 deferrments to teach business), Jeb Bush, Rove, Saxby Chambliss (bad knee), Richard Perle, Doug Feith, Eliot Abrams, Richard Shelby, Gingrich, Jack Kemp (who, however, played an additional 8 years of pro football with a "knee problem," Guliani, Schwartzenegger (was AWOL from Austrian army base), Sean Hannity, Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, George Will, Pat Buchanan, Bill Kristol, Kenneth Starr, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Ralph Reed, Charlie Daniels, Ted Nugent, John Wayne.
Can you say CHICKENHAWK?
Those that did serve? Gephardt, Daschle, Gore, Kerrey, Kerry, Rangel, Cleland, Ted Kennedy, Harkin, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, John Glenn among many other Democrats."
Reagan, if I remember correctly, was in the Hollywood movie-making brigade, a position similar to so many of our keyboard warriors today.
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