RANT: “chickenhawks”, a national shame

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/11/the-last-bayonet-charge-in-vietnam

Friday, November 11th, 2011 | Posted by Jim W. Dean
The Last Bayonet Charge in Vietnam
A Veterans Day Retrospective on Our Veterans Today Senior Editor and a Marine – Gordon Duff
Intro by… Jim W. Dean

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In Vietnam, as with Afghanistan, we sent an army to a hopeless war led by the most corrupt leadership in America’s history.

In Vietnam, a generation of Americans was systematically destroyed, with the best and brightest of the generation “doing time” in Vietnam, combat units, while “bottom feeders” sat in Saigon and DaNang.

Those shirkers an “no accounts” have given us the America we have today, broke, addicted to propaganda and fear, obsessed with safety, a generation ducking responsibility and leadership, borrowing from tomorrow to steal today.

The number of members of congress who ducked Vietnam through imaginary illness, special arrangements for “safe” National Guard units or simply deferment after deferment created a list of “chickenhawks” that became a national shame.

Those that ducked service in Vietnam were the first to push for war after war for the children of those who fought.

Who would have imagined this or have believed they could have gotten away with it?

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The day after Veterans’ Day, and all the problems remain. And, the “chickenhawks” are trying to drum up a war with Iran.

Vote Ron Paul!

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