Does it seem a fair bit of hypocrisy?

Question

Does it seem a fair bit of hypocrisy that the people who criticize Bush for not seeing any overseas duty in Vietnam are of the same ilk who stood in the streets as the veterans came home, spitting on them and calling them baby-killers?

Many of the people who criticize him... I guess I shouldn't say all of the people, as I know some vets who were a bit perturbed about it too. It just seems that the vets learned to deal with it and the others keep picking at it.

Do you honestly think that people would feel differently about the current war if Bush had actually served in Vietnam?

I YAM:

I agree... I think it is rather crappy the way our troops are being screwed out of their benefits, but it's been happening for ages. Usually not during a time of war though...

My father was career military - if he had gotten everything they promised him (sometimes in writing,) he wouldn't have been broke when he died.

Answer 1

I'm a Viet Nam vet and was spat upon by the same class of people that want us to cut and run from Iraq.

They profess to support the troops but have never apologized to the Viet Nam vet.

If we cut and run, the blood of Iraq will be on the hands of the Liberal Democrats. Their souls will be stained with the blood of every soldier that died in Iraq, for cutting and running is in short surrender, making the soldiers sacrifice all for nothing.

Not standing our ground with force and resolve will be the undoing of the U.S.A.

Answer 2

I think that we weren't there when the decision for bush not to go to Iraq came about. For all we know his mother told senior bush that if he didn't do something he wasn't going to get any for a LONG LONG time.
Being the ravishing woman that she was, he gave in. And so now Pres Bush is paying for his father's weak loins.

Answer 3

Very few people actually spit at vets or called them baby-killers.

But you don't really understand hypocrisy. People criticize Bush because they find it hypocritical of HIM to send others off to die in a war when he refused to go to Vietnam himself.

They don't actually care about his "lack of service."

Answer 4

I think Bush spits on our troops everytime his administration cuts funding for veterans, gives mtnce. contracts of Walter Reed Hospital to Cheney's old friend, and blames the young grunt soldiers for Abu Grahib instead of the Bush anti-Geneva policies.

Answer 5

Oh please, while REAL military members were overseas getting shot at, Bush was stateside sipping Mint Julips and hob-nobbing future political contacts.

As a veteran, I can't stand Bush or his flunkies. They are a bunch of war mongers as long as they don't have to fight the wars they start.

Answer 6

people critisized Bush for that when we elected a president that blatently ran away from the war like a coward in the past. hmmm

Answer 7

Yes, and we see the same traitors raising their heads again, Jane Fonda, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and even a crook of a marine, Abscam Murtha. Grammer Lesson: The words "I Support The Toops" should never be followed with the word "but".

Answer 8

I lost my brother in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq last year. If Bush had a brain in his head and a lot less ego, my brother would be alive and fighting the real war, in Afghanistan. Let our troops come home!

Answer 9

People will criticize any president for anything. I will bet that there were critics of George Washington and anyone else that was president.

Answer 10

As someone else said, there's plenty of hypocrisy on your side of the fence. It seems kind of dumb to ask your adversaries to justify their hypocrisy when, as far as I can tell, none of you wrong-wingers on here have ever been willing to admit or justify your own.