Why is it so many of these neocons are themselves, for lack of a better word, draft dodgers? I know McCain served, but he seems to be the exception to the rule. I look at bush, Cheney, Rove, Limbaugh and have to wonder why they are so anxious to take us to war. I will not try to analyse them (repressing shudder at the thought), but it does seem telling that each of these men actively sought to remain out of harm in Viet Nam.
Again just skirting analysis, I wonder if McCain is trying to make up for something as well?
I ask these questions, because every person I know with real war experience, feels that this is not a war we should be in, and the that actions of this administration have been utterly criminal in regards to the Iraq war.
To be fair anyone with a brain in his head in late 60's/70's America was a draft dodger. Many of the people like McCain, Hagel, Powell, Clark etc. who served meritoriously in a completely useless war were professional soldiers. The problem with people like Cheney and Limbaugh who had other priorities or boils on the ass is that all they are doing is exploiting the veins of genuine patriotism, simplistic nationalism and nativism that exist on the right to further today's political agenda. It's like Limbaugh's continual ranting about media and Hollywood elites. Well if he with his $400 million contract is not a media elite I don't know who is but a large proportion of the alleged 20 million who listen to his radio programs seem to miss this rather obvious fact. These guys are all as phony as a three dollar bill.
Well said. I just wonder at how they can fool the American people, I mean they are such obvious hypocrites.
