The military vote did NOT go to the Democrats in the last election. More BS from NJ.

John Wayne did NOT seek deferment, but was denied due to a football injury when he tried to enlist. More BS from NJ.

It also shows why Britain shouldn’t regard the United States of Crass Hypocrisy as a friend, or an ally, why our troops shouldn’t be dying in Afghanistan and Iraq, why we shouldn’t even have diplomatic relations with the United States and why most Americans in the United Kingdom should be treated as the immoral undesirable aliens that they are.

Sure, we hear the usual Fenian excuses that Edward Kennedy simply supported a United Ireland, but not the IRA and its violence; but facts are facts and no amount of convenient revisionism can change the hard fact that for many years he was one of the chief fund raisers for NORAID – and it is an indisputable fact that NORAID provided 95% of the funding for the IRA’s bombs and violence – and that he is therefore soaked in the blood of far more innocent victims than Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi is (even IF you believe that he is guilty).

But hey, there weren’t many American victims of IRA bombs, and as this forum repeatedly proves, in the eyes of most Americans, only American victims of terrorism count.

As not only a victim of a 1996 IRA, but also someone who has always bee a firm believer in the right of the people of Northern Ireland to determine their own future by peaceful means, I had long since forgiven Kennedy and the IRA – but since all this unseemly and hypocritical outrage over al-Megrahi, when the true colours of our ‘ally’ were finally shown, all of that forgiveness has gone out of the window and as far as I am concerned, Kennedy – and ALL of those rancid hypocrites who hail him as a hero – can rot in the hell of their own making.

One might ask a better question, Why is it that so many Republicans elected to Congress are less likely to have done military service than the Democrats elected to Congress.

The list of Chickenhawks is still pretty large, Not just elected ones, but the list of conservative pundits who sought deferments is rather large and has not gotten shorter:

Elliott Abrams – Sought deferment for bad back.
Richard Armey – Sought college deferment, too smart to die.
Bill Bennett – Sought graduate school deferment, too smart to die.
Pat Buchanan – Sought deferment for bad knee.
George W. Bush Daddy got him in the National Guard
Dick Cheney – Sought graduate school deferment, too smart to die.
Tom DeLay – - Sought college deferment, too smart to die.
Newt Gingrich – Sought graduate school deferment, too smart to die.
Phil Gramm – Sought marriage deferment, too loved to die.
Jack Kemp – Sought medical deferment while in the NFL.
Rush Limbaugh – Sought deferment for ingrown hair follicle on his ass.
Trent Lott – Sought deferment, didn’t want to muss his hair.
P.J. O’Rourke – Sought deferment, too stoned.
Dan Quayle – Family got him into the Reserves.
Pat Robertson – Father pulled him out of Korea as soon as the shooting began.
Kenneth Starr Sought deferment for psoriasis.
John Wayne – Sought deferment to further acting career.
Vin Weber – Sought deferment for asthma.
George Will – Sought deferment, too much of a wussy.

We liberals just aint going to send someone else’s kid to die somewhere for the sole purpose of protecting some rich guys investments. Iraq is the most recent example. There was no good reason to send anyone there, and even George Bush tried to pull the “We made a mistake about the WMDs but we have to move on”. The entire thing has always been about trying to get at the oil. If you look at the most reviled governments and world leaders while George W was president, three out of four of them nationalized their petroleum. Assad in Syria is not only not much different than Saddam Hussein was, his entire government was based on the same political movement Baathism.
Syria just doesnt have anything American corporations want to get their hands on as much.