Come on all you Republicans who said you would but you're too old. Or do you want to be hypocrites and cowards yet again and let younger people die for the wars you start?
Oh right, you've got some stupid ribbon and you wave a flag, you're doing your part! Good job!
**Still no WMD's and no connection to terrorists. Yay for lying. It's the Republican way.
2006-08-04 13:46:26 · 38 answers · asked by eskimo 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
They extended the age and lowered the rewquirements because not enough people joined, not because they were getting so many good soldiers. But we have so many Republicans, so where is the shortage?
2006-08-04 13:59:08 · update #1
Ha! Showing me some examples of some Republicans who are in the army does not excuse those Republicans who are pro-war yet have not signed up. I guess i shouldn't leave intellectual matters up to people who most likely don't believe in evolution and who are stupid enough to think tax cuts are the cure-all for a recession and a boom.
2006-08-04 14:05:36 · update #2
It is very easy to say one thing yet do another. In my mind any healthy young person who says they support the war and is not in Iraq fighting is a coward. They preach how the war is the right thing and how we cannot saying anything bad about it but they have so much fear that all they do is talk. I have read about so many people in their late thirties that said they would fight if they could but now that the age limit has been raised none of them have signed up to fight. Are the Bush twins in Iraq? What about every twenty year old who is reading this and calling you an anti-American for your question? Why are you all not fighting? I am letting you all know that if you are young, healthy, and for the war you are nothing but a little coward for not fighting in it.
2006-08-07 14:25:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Are Republicans ready to serve in Iraq? Why should they start now? Bush showed the Republicans just how to serve their country when he was in the service, hide out under the bed until it's all over.
I guess this is their game plan and they aren't about to change it for anyone ever.
The Republicans have their own set of standards and a different set for everyone else and that's also in their game plans too. I don't think they will ever wake up and smell the bodies as they are flown back home, they will continue to look the other way and pretend that nothing has happened yet so they will allow this hateful war go on until there are no more young people left to give up their lives for the Republicans.
2006-08-11 19:04:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure where you got your information from. My information is that the military has been making it's quotas regularly throughout this whole conflict.
What I find disturbing about our whole question (if it really is meant to be a question) is that you show such a kind of generalized disrespect for people who may think differently than you do. You simply categorize and castigate and taunt. Those aren't the best tactics for winning friends or even for winning your own arguments.
I am 58, I am a woman, I am a conservative. I am the daughter of a military officer. My whole chiildhood was predicated on the Cold War. I visited East Berlin when the wall was up--and saw the effects of tyranny on a people. I spent a summer in Thailand after the fall of Vietnam and then Cambodia. I worked with the refugees who had walked through the killing fields to find their way to refugee camps. I put myself in harms way for what I believed in. I'd do it again, but I have duties that hold me here and health that would make me more of a burden than a help in Iraq.
When you can say as much about what you have done with your life then I believe you would find that your entire attitude would have changed and you would wish that you had not been so disrespectful and rude to those you know nothing about.
2006-08-12 04:37:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I signed up after the war started because I fully believe in it and that we should defend freedom. Sure there are some bad republicans I admit that, but I have to say that a republican has never called me a baby killer like some other people. So stop with the name calling and support your candidates to come up with a plan for Iraq or anything else and actually come out and speak it. If they have better ideas then they will win elections. Until then don't disrespect what is being done in Iraq.
2006-08-04 13:58:49 · answer #4 · answered by tennis guy 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The numbers of Republican Cheerleaders for a False Political Foundation of US Security under a Chicken Hawk Cabinet posing as the US Govt is the REASON for asking this question and if their PROPAGANDA were to believed there would be NO SHORTAGE of AMERICAN PATRIOTS enlisting themselves or their kids into the front-lines in Iraq. The Bush Twins are an excellent example of GOP hypocrisy in Death by Proxy.
2006-08-12 02:54:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree how many sons and daughters of the republican Congress are on active military duty ? How many of you drum beating ,teeth gnashing war loving conservatives are lining up to fight with something other than your mouths.Put your body and life where your rhetoric is ,if not just back off.Get off your old decrepit buttes and go to Iraq to fight your leaders war.
Note I like John McCain I'm proud of him ,I'm in AZ.
My husband served 20 yrs in the Army,he was active duty
and spent 15 months in a Cambodian prison camp during the Viet Nam war,he'd go to Iraq if they would take him .
The remark made by Cheney that the reason he didn't go to Viet Nam to fight was" he had other priorities",damn so did my husband but he went any way.Hes a Democrat and an American hero.
2006-08-11 04:46:05 · answer #6 · answered by Yakuza 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question shows a lack of historical knowledge (check out the leadership of WWll) This war was not started by Republicans but, by Terrorists. It has been going on for years. The attack on the World Trade Center should show you how little they think of life.As far as WMD's the human being is the most dangerous WMD in existance. You should note that Clinton's people were just as sure of WMD's. Where do you think the intelligence originated from?
2006-08-04 14:13:11 · answer #7 · answered by richard 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The reason so many military people are Republicans is because Republicans are the hawks. The very nature of voluntary military tells you most people join for the excitement. You get to go to foreign lands, meet exciting and new people , and kill them. George Bush dodged the draft by having daddy get him in the National Guard. But not just any Guard, the Air National Guard for cripes sake. And he couldn't even make his meetings. Dick Cheney said he had OTHER Priority's. I'm a DEMOCRAT and proud of it. Oh, by the served with the 101st. airborne in Vietnam Republic of.
2006-08-09 18:12:32 · answer #8 · answered by c321arty 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The younger iteration of the US will have to be grateful. Raising the retirement age will preserve Social Security alive. It's unhappy that younger humans in France and Greece are so within the bag with Socialist insurance policies, they cannot manage a spice up in their retirement age from 60 to sixty two.
2016-08-28 12:32:57 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Republicans are chicken sh1ts. They don't mind being gung ho for war, just as long as they don't have to fight in it.
Since we need all the help in Iraq, why doesn't the Bush twins go over there and help with the cause?
Why is recruitment at an all time low? Why raise the requirements for this dumb war? Because America doesn't buy that this war is against terrorism. Bush and Cheney got caught in to many lies.
Click on these funny links to see just how patriotic Republicans really are. All talk but no action.
http://www.geocities.com/fountoftruth/sendin.html
http://www.nhgazette.com/news/chickenhawks/chickenhawk_headquarters/
http://www.nhgazette.com/news/chickenhawks/propaganda_platoon/
2006-08-04 14:13:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋