How can u believe Kerry is anti military when he is a vetern and bush ran away from serving?

Question

Why doesnt bush and all the republicans send their kids to war way is it soo easy to send ours? Our troops are dying there this gotta stop.Nothing is worth it .PS shouldnt bush focus on catching bin ladden he is a real threat to us.

Answer 1

People buy what Bush says because:
1. He doesn't ever back down.
2. He just keeps pointing his finger and namecalling.
3. He has the Bush power & money to put himself on a stage, shouting at any and all who question the slightest thing he may say or do. (What was that about the right of free speech?)
4. He uses the office of the President like some sort of badge, saying that if you question him, you have questioned democracy, patriotism, and even the worth of the troops.

If you think about it, he is the one using the troops. He uses them to hide behind.

He shows the traits of a classic school bully. "Teacher, teacher, look what Kerry did to me! Stop him, stop him! All the while shoving people around in order to get his way.

The war is sadly much like any kid trying to get revenge for what you did to my "daddy". Unfortunately, W's daddy was the President of the United States, who by the way looks like a genius compared to his son. W was upset because his father, the first Bush president, was ousted from office by a democrat. Meanwhile Saddam stayed in power, even though a really terrible person. The unfairness of it all, in W's mind must have really eaten at him - with the constant war mongering of Cheney & Wolfowitz in his ear. Under Rumsfeld's micromanaging, W set out to show everyone how it's done. Unfortunately, with his lack of experience, he didn't KNOW how it is done. His bullying and showing the world the Bush worth, unfortunately involved thousands of other people, both military and civilian who are now dead. That is the real tragedy.

Meanwhile, no one is going to get in his way. For lack of plan, that is his plan.

Where I live, a lot of young people unfortunately are stuck in the middle of this. It is true what Kerry says. The rich can afford college. The valedictorian gets scholarships. The rest of middle America here in the heartland is stuck. Students join the military in order to pay for school. Bush cannot acknowledge that, for that lack of money has never crossed his mind. He never even considered what this war would cost. in lives, or in dollars- It meant money to be made by Cheney's company, Halliburton who got the contracts to rebuild Iraq without even taking bids. Paying for college isn't even a blimp on their radar. Students here scratch to make it to a state university or junior college. No one even considers the Ivy League, which costs many times more. The rich have their circle and no one else is allowed a view. We know money separates us, we know we cannot prove our smarts with no money. We know the military is a way to prove yourself and get a leg up. We know Bush knows he needs a poor middle America to keep his voluntary army stocked with soldiers. We are insulted that Bush doesn't understand that.

The part that really distresses me is that Kerry apologized. He should have demanded that Bush apologize for not knowing how financially strapped middle America is. It is true that where money is missing, only the top students can hope to go to college without signing up for Iraq. They play the odds. Odds are, they will make it OK physically, and have college money. Sometimes you don't beat the odds. Some will end up with medals of commendation. Some will be buried. It has nothing to do with disrespecting our military. Only Bush does that by namecalling military veterans who do not agree with his policies. That is shameful, and that deserves apology.

Anyone who tries to turn veteran against veteran is the lowest of the low. Bush was proud to do that in the campaign against Kerry and is not about to stop now.

Kerry should realize that this fight to control the House and Senate is a fight worthy of waging with all his might, and NOT back down. Put on his uniform. Wear his honors. Stand tall. Tell the American people that he IS the seviceman that deserves respect. Bush is the one disrespecting him, and therefore disrespecting our decorated veterans. Kerry is in the circle. Bush is not. Kerry needs to take a stand. The people are with him. Maybe not all the touch screen voting machines recorded in his favor (ours have NO paper trail and are easily hacked into) --but we all know the people are with Kerry. He needs to act like it and get out there!

Answer 2

Recruitment programs have long used advanced education and field training as the carrot to dangle in front of young men and women in attempt to get them to sign up. "be all you can" type ads are run continuously even now when many that would sign up understand that they could be deployed after initial training. The aviation guarantee was a program that attracted many young folks throughout the sixty’s and seventy’s.

I like the commercial where the kid tells his father he has found a way to get the education he desires, the father say's what kind of training is it? The son says the ARMY, the father just struck gold because he won't have to foot the college tuition.

There was a time when judges would give young offenders a choice "jail or the service"

Many of the Vietnam era soldiers were from underclass family’s and had minimal education, that's just the way it was, many of the young men and women of this era simply did not have the desire or the funds to continue into a college education and felt it was optional at the time.

Today most young folks have at least a high school education and perhaps a year or two of community college however, many were drawn to the reserves for opportunities of continued education and benefits that the job market in civilian life was not offering. Many of the older reservists were working towards a pension in addition to their civilian job retirement plans. These folks were probably well educated and had achieved officer status.

That is the current make up of the forces deployed at this time.

I think that if you look at the grunt infantry soldiers what you say is not that far off base even in this day and age. They are still honorable and brave Soldiers one and all.

Kerrys comments I feel were towards the politicians.

Answer 3

Assumption #1: Bush "ran away" from serving. He flew planes in the National Guard. Let's see you fly a paper airplane.

Assumption #2: Bush and Republicans can "send their kids" to war. Their kids must VOLUNTEER to join the military. No one can FORCE them.

Assumption #3: Bush is not focusing on catching bin Laden. How do you know he isn't on his tail right now?

Assumption #4: if we do catch bin Laden, we will have ended the "real threat" to us. Even if we caught him 3 years ago, al Qaeda would not just shrivel up and die.

Assumption #5: Kerry must be in FAVOR of the military because he was involved in it. Is that why Kerry SMEARED other soldiers with total lies about what occurred in Vietnam?


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Dee wrote:

"It is true what Kerry says. The rich can afford college. The valedictorian gets scholarships. The rest of middle America here in the heartland is stuck. Students join the military in order to pay for school. Bush cannot acknowledge that, for that lack of money has never crossed his mind."

The Heritage Foundation did a study in 2005 on the economic, educational, etc. backgrounds of military members. Those in the military are educated and come from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just "the poor." Stop spreading mythology when the facts clearly contradict you.

www.heritage.org

Answer 4

Leave it to someone that can't spell or compose a decent sentence to stick up for Kerry and bash Bush. Typical. First of all, I guess the best way to determine how someone feels about something is what they say. Kerry has called the soldiers he served with torturers and baby killers. Don't you find it a little odd that most of the men he served with hate his guts? He has accused our brave men serving in Iraq of terrorizing women and children. And now he calls them idiots. If he indeed has nothing but admiration for our troops, he sure has a strange way of showing it. As for who is getting sent to Iraq, I can assure you that there are far more Republicans serving in Iraq than Dumbacrats. All you have to do is look at is who our troops vote for (when the Dimocrats allow their votes to be counted).

Answer 5

The Republicans are capitalising on statements Kerry made 34 years ago to substantiate an anti-troop banner on Kerry's head with a 10 second sound bite. If you have listened to the entire speech kerry was obviously BUSH bashing leading up to the statement and did not complete the entire thought.
However he did prove his wishy-washy ways by apologizing instead of standing firm that he was merely Bush bashing. Of course the Republicans are only going to air the questionable sound bite 5 days before the election. If I was the party gettign ready to be handed one of the worst losses in American history I would do the same thing.
The only sad point is that the only way to get rid of the corrupt and inept Republicans is by electing the weak and ineffective Democrats.
Sad Sad state of the Union this is.

Answer 6

Actually George W Bush is a veteran. He received an honorable discharge from the National Guard. I might add his unit could have been called up to serve in Vietnam but as chance would have it, it was not.

see Kerry's statements before a congressional hearing.

Answer 7

1. Kerry served in Vietnam for four months. His injuries that led to him receiving two Purple Hearts did not cause him to have to take any time off.
2. Bush DID serve, he just wasn't sent to Vietnam. He wasn't the only one. There were many who wound up not being sent.
3. Several Republicans already HAVE children in the military, and one of them has a son in Iraq. I can't remember who.
4. Many Republicans already SERVE in the military.
5. We went after bin Laden. He isn't/wasn't in Afghanistan when we got there. He's probably in Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, or any one of those countries. We can't invade them all, you know.

You're right that our troops are dying...as a military wife, I feel every single one of them. It's a blow to us here, especially when our guys are there (they're about to be coming home)...I kept thinking, whenever there was a casualty, that it could have been any one of our friends.

Many of our friends have come back from Iraq and said it WAS worth it.

War is never a good thing, but sometimes it's a necessary evil.

Answer 8

Farkas416 just made the libs posting in this thread look like morons... Good post! :)

BTW, I'm a Conservative, and I will be joining the armed services this coming spring.

And John Kerry IS anti-military when he accuses our men and women in uniform of sneaking into homes in the dark of night and terrorizing women and children... Nevermind when he calls them uneducated.

Another liberal talking point down the crapper.

Answer 9

How many Kennedy's served in Viet Nam? 15,000 troops died in 1968 in Viet Nam, are you outraged at that? What about my cousin's husband that is still MIA from 1969? Is there outrage there? You have no idea what is going on in Iraq or anywhere else. Unless you are there you don't know the truth. You probably read your liberal newspapers and believe everything they tell you.

Answer 10

Vietnam was a ground war and Bush was a pilot.

Kerry shot and killed his own troops.

Kerry campaigned for his own Purple Hearts and went over his CO's head when he wouldn't agree to it since he injured himself.