Why aren't any of our senators and congressmen or their children fighting in the war?

Answer 1

Military Service of Key Democrats, Republicans & Right-Wing Cheerleaders

Democrats
John Kerry Lt.1966-70, Vietnam, Silver Star, Bronze Star
John Edwards none
Tom Daschle 1st Lt, Air Force 1969-72
Al Gore Army journalist, Vietnam
George McGovern WWII, Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross
Bill Clinton none
Jimmy Carter Annapolis graduate, Naval officer, 1946-53
Walter Mondale Army, 1951-53
Richard Gepardt Air National Guard, 1965-71
Ted Kennedy Army, 1951-53
Bob Kerry Lt.j.g., 1966-69, Vietnam, Medal of Honor
Daniel Inouye Army, 1943-47, Medal of Honor
Max Cleland Capt., Army, 1965-68, Vietnam, Silver Star, Bronze Star, triple amputee
Wesley Clark West Point graduate, Army, 1966-2000, Silver Star, 4-Star General

Republicans
George W. Bush Texas Air National Guard (no combat)
Dick Cheney * None, 5 deferments
John Ashcroft None
Don Rumsfeld * Navy aviator, 1954-57
Dennis Hastert None
Tom DeLay None
Bill Frist None
George H. W. Bush Navy aviator (youngest), WWII, Distinguished Flying Cross
Ronald Reagan Army Air Corps Intelligence 1st Motion Picture Unit, WWII, made pilot training films
Jeb Bush None
Karl Rove None
Paul Wolfowitz * None
Richard Perle * None
Douglas Feith * None
Elliot Abrams * None
Newt Gingrich None
Trent Lott None
Phil Graham None
Antonin Scalia None
Clarence Thomas None
Rudy Giulani None
George Pataki None
Mitch McConnell None
Rick Santorum None
Colin Powell ** Army, 4-Star General, Chairman of Joint Chiefs
John McCain ** Vietnam POW


Cheerleaders
Sean Hannity
Rush Limbaugh None given deferment due to a boil on his butt
Bill O’Reilly None
Michael Savage None
Michael Medved None
Bill Bennett * None
George Will None

* Neo-conservative hawks
* * Foreign policy moderates, used as front-men with advice ignored
It appears unambiguously clear that those who aggressively wave the flag masking belligerence as patriotism, those who loudly proclaim what Henry Miller called “pale, attenuated ideas which have to be fattened by slaughter,” those most ready to send others to kill, to wreak destruction upon families, homes and cities in another land, perhaps to die, perhaps to suffer disabling, lifelong physical or psychological injuries, are people who lack, in the words of civil war veteran Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, “the incommunicable experience of war.”

Answer 2

Matt Lourey, son of Minnesotan Senator Becky Lourey, died while serving in Iraq in 2005. Sgt. Brooks Johnson, who has served in Kosovo, Bosnia, Korea and Germany, Afghanistan and Iraq, is the son of Senator Tim Johnson. And Senator
John McCain's youngest son, Jimmy McCain, just joined the Marines, so there is a good chance he'll end up in Iraq when his boot-camp/training is over.
Just because someone has a parent that is a politician, doesn't mean they should have to run out and join the Military. It's like people who have asked why the President's two girls aren't out there fighting in Iraq. Well, they have the right to chose not to join the Military, just like the rest of us! Military life is for some people, and others don't see it as a way they want to live them life.

Answer 3

Because they don't consider their children to be American. The senators and congressmen all suffer from the God Complex and think their children are far too important to be fighting for America.

Those guys think that America should fight for them. The REAL question is this:

Why aren't any soldiers or citizens figthing against senators and congressmen ?

Answer 4

Good question. Methinks that if our elected officials were retired military we would have less wars and less BS about war. They are chickenhawks. they love a good war when its somebody else doing the dying. This brings up some important questions, like "how is it that fat old men who have never been in the military are the ones deciding whether or not our warriors go to war?" Of course if you analyze the facts that are not public knowledge, you will find that this war isnt about getting cheap oil, freeing iraq from hussein, stopping terrorism, or any of that crap. the war is about 3 things: 1. making war unpopular so that US citizens would rather appease terrorists and give away their freedom to the UN rather than fight. 2. to sacrifice our best young men who value liberty and justice, so that there will be fewer dissenters when the NWO is instituted. 3. to drive UP prices on oil and everything else, further concentratng wealth for the richest 5%.

Answer 5

Senators are the new nobility. They do not care about the People, any longer. The Democrat and the Republican both are as corrupt as the other, and merely want a legal golden parachute. It would be nice to see more veterans elected to office. Then we would have people in office who understand what it is to be shot at. Who understand what it is to hold their squadmates, and try to calm them down, while waiting on a corpsman to help out with the wound. Laws are nice, but warfare is ugly and brutal. It's best to have people who have experienced it firsthand making those decisions.

Answer 6

for sure no longer. If we made all their little ones serve (and Jenna and Barbara also, and Cheney's daughter for sure who could on the instantaneous be thrown out of the provider because someone could absolutely ask and tell) we may be out of Iraq day after today. If we had a real draft and all their little ones could get drafted (no Cheney deferments or Bush AWOL nationwide preserve duty) we may be out the first day honestly one of their little ones were given a draft word. for sure they don't and till we do they are going to proceed to imagine no longer something of putting American provider human beings in harms way.

Answer 7

Noticed that too, did you? Politicians and their children are too important to waste putting them into potentially bad situations. Don't forget that Clinton was a draft dodger. If the draft were reinstated, no senator or congressman's child would be drafted. Believe that. It would be left up to us cannon fodder.

Answer 8

Because they are privileged. I did notice that Senator McCain's son enlisted.
Our politicians do a lot of bad things that are legal (but then they made the laws).

Answer 9

Do your research!! There are members of congress as well as their children who are serving right now. John McCains youngest son is in the Marines.

Answer 10

Sen John McCain son joined the military. I think he went into Marines.