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A Bush Goes to War
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The Bush family’s fourth-generation standard-bearer, Jeb's son George P., talks exclusively with The Daily Beast about his new deployment overseas—and plots his political future in Texas.
Even though we just trudged out of the last Bush era, everyone wants to know when George P. Bush, Jeb Bush’s eldest son and the family’s fourth-generation standard-bearer, is going to run for something. But P., as he’s known, has bigger things on his mind. He’s thinking about parachuting onto the frontlines of his uncle’s War on Terror.
Lt. Junior Grade Bush, 33, joined the Navy Reserve in 2007 as an intelligence officer. The Navy recently told him, like thousands of others, that the two ongoing wars required him to go active-duty overseas, potentially in Iraq or Afghanistan. “It’s been communicated to me that it’s not a question of ‘if,’ it’s a question of ‘when,’” Bush told The Daily Beast. “It’s just a matter of time.”
George P. Bush is co-founding Hispanic Republicans of Texas, a political action committee for which he will do the unglamorous work of recruiting candidates.
Bush’s Prince Harry moment is the latest and most unusual chapter in the life of the political scion. When he came on the political scene in 2000, as a TV-ready spokesman for his uncle’s presidential campaign, P. was named one of People magazine’s sexiest men and considered an amusing presence. Now, in addition to his military service, Bush is assembling an ambitious political program in Texas devoted to one of his family’s most cherished issues. With his uncle and dad in semi-retirement, P. has become the de facto keeper of what his grandfather once called the “legacy thing.”
The name George Bush still draws a crowd in Texas. When George P. and his wife Mandi moved to Austin last October, where his private-equity firm relocated, it was announced in the local papers. (Similarly, when he criticized Gov. Charlie Crist last month for excess spending, he made headlines in his native Florida.) Eric Opiela, the executive director of the Republican Party of Texas and Bush’s friend since law school, said that George P. had waited for George W.’s presidency to end before jumping into politics with both feet.
Bush’s primary mission in Texas is to mend fences with Hispanic voters. This is a Bush family obsession. Hispanics flocked to both of George W.’s presidential campaigns—by some estimates he won 44 percent of their vote in 2004. Then, just as dramatically, those voters switched to Barack Obama last year; McCain won only 31 percent of the Hispanic vote. “Personally, I think it’s disappointing,” George P. said ruefully.
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dc1967
The Bush family are like a bad infestation of vermine..you can't get rid of them!
Jinglebob
Yea, kinda like that Kennedyroach thing.
thankulord13
The difference is the roaches have been around a lot longer do less damage than the Rats.
roooth
I love the smell of desperation in the morning.
You wish you could find a real comparison between the Bushs and the Kennedys - but this is the best you can do: both the Kennedys and the Bush believe in public service.
That's where the similarity ends, because, unfortunately for us, while the Kennedys believe in serving the public, the Bushs believe the public is here to serve them.
Poor 'P'. You know he held on as long as he could before signing up to get his military credentials. He had to do it before running - since no Bush has put their ass on the line for any of their wars-for-profit since WWII. P sure as hell wasn't going to sign on for Iraq when W was in a rush to invade - although he was all over the place selling his uncle's war, he wouldn't sign up to serve when the going looked dangerous. Now, he probably figures he can slide in, have a couple of photo-ops for future campaigns, and get the hell back to Texas.
Anyone know if he's actually shown up for duty yet?
Ans, Penalcolony - you're right about how many Navy Reservists are actually parachuting into any forward area anywhere. What a joke. And I say that as a veteran - what a joke.
But the Bushes will make the most of it - and if they can find a way to make money off of it, they'll do that too.
Bush Family Motto: "Someone needs to profit off of all this blood, might as well be us."
reardongalt
"Kennedys believe in serving the public"
If by "serving the public" you mean drowniing and raping girls, then I agree with you.
Maezeppa
Sorry, but the Kennedy family truly believed in public service. Bush's are theives.
hockeydog
And the "P" stands for what, Preston?
And wasn't old Preston and his $$$ connected with the Nazi's?
Just wonderin...
GM2009
How many have the Bush's murdered now, rounded to the nearest hundred thousand.
stickit
Yeah love what yeah said here but the real VERMIN sits in the white house unless you love the commie's way of life??
roadhunter
I'll take the commie way over corporations controlling the government any day. Cuba has much better health care than the US. So what if they don't have free elections? They all have roofs over their heads, plenty of food to eat, and the highest literacy rate in this hemisphere.
Not to mention, when a hurricane comes, the government packs each family up along with their furniture and personal belongings, and moves them to safety, then back again when the danger has passed. Compare that to New Orleans.
Autopilot
God yes!! Vermin, oh God yes, icky, yucky vermin......absolutely. And a special thanks to Bryan Curtis who is keeping alive the dream of aristocracy. A meritocracy is grossly overrated. People say mean things about Carl Rove; but he made it clear that the best criterion for choosing a president is whether you would be inclined to buy him a beer at the local tavern. Now that should be how our presidents are chosen. What's with all this emphasis on education and experience? Anybody can be a decider. All they have to do is be from a good family and follow their gut. So it's also very important to elect a president with a smart gut. And a vermin don't have smart guts, so they become commies and drink vodka all day and eat potatoes and leeks and cabbage....yuk. And then they become icky. There was something else I was going to say.........um.......never mind.
vonTim
Did I really read "commie?" What is this 1980?
cmeasy
Roadhunter, I can see you've never traveled to Cuba, plenty of food to eat? Or actually been to a Communist country like China, N Korea? I've been to China, India, Peru, Mexico, Jamaica, Cambodia, El Salvador, Panama, and the US is by far the best country ever. If you consider living in a house the size of closet than go to Cuba. If you consider eating grass and roots, and leaves as plenty of food go to NKorea. Free health care go to China, where they sterilize the handicaped, the mental patients, those who disagree with the government policies. Stop trashing our great country.
drew52877
cmeasy... one would think that someone so well travelled as yourself would know the difference between "then" and "than." Obviously you are a "B.S. er" and really know nothing about the rest of the world. Just because some people are not the cheer-leading "rah, rah, USA is the best at everything" type doesn't mean that our views are any less valid and any less correct. I think I can say I've been around a bit more than you and can say that we in the U.S. can learn a few things from other countries.
reardongalt
Or the Clinton Slug.
SimonSaize
everybody is different- I am nothing like my other siblings- at all. Labeling one under a surname is a false perception. You could even think I favor the Bush family for writing this.
elmoor
Heaven help us all.
sophia5
Some of the comments are interesting in that much of the animosity
for this guy is based solely on his name.
Maybe he's an aberration to the " Bush Infamy. "
George " P " may appeal to many conservative Latinos.
They are not a Monolithic block of voters.
PUPITO
Hear hear, well put!
clintxxx
Did OBAMHA serve our country? I think not! It has not even been decided if he is a resident of this country! Have you served? Probably not, threrfore you have no comment! Go get EM Bush!
roadhunter
At least he didn't LIE about serving it as Dubya did.
StandingStill
It has not been decided if he is a resident of this country? Are you serious? You do not run for and become POTUS if someone...in power has not seen proof that you are a citizen of the most POWERFUL country in the world! Better to keep your mouth shut and they only think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and prove YOU are an idiot!!!
lindaw
You said it so well! Obama serves no one but himself. BUSH WAS A GREAT PRES!
penalcolony
"Parachuting into the front lines? "
Oh, please. Navy Reserve casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan are near zero.
If this reminds anyone of G.P. Bush's uncle, well . . .
perdidochas
The whole part about "parachuting into the front lines" wasn't Bush's words, but Curtis' words. Bush himself in the last part of the article downplays the danger.
Granite
NO!
daniel66
No matter how anyone feels about his uncle, this young man is serving his country in uniform -- a little respect please.
robwriter
Gimme a break. It's called "getting your ticket punched." If a Bush in "intelligence" doesn't strike you as laughable, you may be suffering from irony deficiency. Or be from Texas.
southernyankee
I agree with you. Only in TX will they elect idiots. Look at what they got now. Nuff said.
curiousdemo
It is laughable! I can see it play out this way....George P. goes to Iraq and put in the protected zone. He come back after six month and the press states he's a war hero. What a joke! He said it himself, I'll be protected. He was saying it like "I'm a Bush and you know we don't fight in war, asks my uncle" Bushes are like parasites, they'll suck the blood out of a mosquito.
thankulord13
Thank you... you notice he is doing intelligence. He won't be in harms way. He needs to be on the front line along with his two cousin Jenna and Barbara Bush.
magnetmann
Hey hey We are not all republican hacks in Texas. I lived under the Bush terror for more than twelve years. Hispanic repugs will be like breasts on a bull.
wolfboi1970
He is a disgrace to ALL the men and woman who REALLY ARE SERVING, and serving where they are needed, not in some cushie office doing what a bush does best...spying and invading privacy. RESPECT....Please....his paycheck is wasted tax dollars....
southernyankee
Gee, Gore and Kerry were both on the frontlines I don't remember anyone giving them any slack. Just because he is part hispanic doesn't mean little P is going to the their vote. I think the hispanic people finally got it that they want their vote but they want them in their own neighborhood. I think this country has had enough of Bushs. If we know anything about the Bush family he won't be in the front lines. After all he is there to get his ticket punched.
roooth
If you're a Republican, Gore and Kerry were glory-seeking hounds when they actually put their lives on the line in Vietnam, but P will be a hero for announcing that he may get sent overseas in a cushy post where he'll never see real action.
jyearsley
Lie! Kerry was, for a short period. Gore was a remf working for Stars and Stripes in Saigon. At least try to be honest.
roooth
As a veteran from a real military family, a little respect is all I have - VERY little. This is nothing but political theatre for a future run.
I don't believe for one minute that this is about actually "serving" his country. I remember him out on the campaign trail, selling the invasion of Iraq, claiming it was necessary for our very survival. If invading Iraq was about saving this country, why didn't he join up to serve then? He was a rich business man in TX, and apparently that was more of a priority to him than saving us from what HE described as a serious threat to our very existence.
NOW we should believe he's all about service. I don't think so.
And if you believe for one minute that his service will resemble real military service, I have a spot in the Texas Air National Guard I'll sell you.
johnwr3
"As a veteran from a real military family"...leave it to a liberal to set up a military cast system. WTF soldier boy we are all veterans. The Bush family isn't any better than any other military family, including yours, and they would be the first to say it. At least George P. serves his country, that's more than I can say for many in his generation. If you recall, his grandfather was shot down in WW2 and became President of the United States. George W. served in the National Guard and also became President. His father was Governor of Florida and has served the people in all sorts of emergencies. The Bush family is the real deal but they don't need me to defend them.
truegrit
JOHNWR3 doesn't sound like a military veteran to me when he uses the term "soldier boy". Didn't the Bush military records get kinda "cleaned up" while they held office. WTF johnny wannabe, you ain't no veteran, talk is cheap. This George P kid is a chip off the old block as all can see, I'll bet he thinks Sarah would be a terrific VP. I'll bet P thinks that sacrificing 4000 young American lives in an unnecessary war was the Christian thing for his Uncle to do. P, tell us how close a friend is the Bin Laden family to your Uncle and Grampa?
retired-army-1SG
truegrit, I couldn't agree more. "Soldier boy"? As for what you think of this generation, you're all wet there too... the men and women who are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan may well be the best we have ever put in the field... these warrior go back tour after tour, year after year, to do some of the hardest fighting known in combat - urban insurgency... they are warriors, while you are to be pitied as a wannabe
Lynettema
This guy is fattening up his political resume. He will get the "Prince Harry" treatment from the military. At least Harry attempted to go to Iraq anonymously when the fighting was heavy. Someone outed him and he had to leave. Harry won't get near the front lines or an IED. Get real
sherbug
Serving his country? This will be a photo op that will appear on the Ads when they run "P" for President.
periscope
The last thing America needs is another Bush in public office. You would think the name "Bush" would be a stain that could not be eradicated. But then if this Bush scion runs in Texas, anything is possible from that loony state.
Look at what they put in the governor's office in the last election. Perry, the American secessionist, who executes innocent people without investigating the case.
peppermint
Where does all this hatred come from for this young man? Oh I know, it's the same old face of the dem party that pretends to be all inclusive but God help you if your name is Bush. They are petrified that George P. will become a new standard bearer for Hispanics and their votes.
thankulord13
Yeah the standard Bearer for the Hispanics but the racist base of the GOP won't support him. We on the left have nothing to worry about.
roooth
NO - it comes from the fact that HE was out selling the illegal invasion of a country that was no threat to us. HE was right there with his dad and uncle, selling the idea that our very existence was on the line.
Then he did exactly what you would expect from a man who really believes his country's very existence is threatened - he went back to his rich life in a well-paying job in Texas and did what Bushes always do - he let someone's else's kids die for his family's profits.
Now he wants to make a show of service so he can run for office. You're damn right I'm petrified that another Bush might become anyone's standard bearer - all that means to me is more profit for them, more funerals for us.
That's why all this hatred is here. Because the Bushes love to piss on our shoes and tell us it's raining - and we're supposed to salute and give them whatever they want. I don't think so.
Lynettema
It's not hatred, it's REJECTION! We reject the Bush's royal family for the terrible things they have done to our country. We reject what they stand for and what they bring to (non)governing our country. They are "there" only for their base - wealthy (white) folks. 8 years showed us exactly what we no longer want - rejection.
leonmax
It's not hatred. It is common sense. Starting with Prescott Bush the family "legacy thing" does not hold up well to scrutiny. G.H.W. was just possibly perhaps least offensive of the family. Jeb left Florida in a financial mess; Dubya left the entire USA in a similar mess that only throwing good money after his bad seems to be having any effect. Dems are left to clean up Gitmo, Iraq, Afghanistan, too. G. Prescott's "safe" turn at establishing a military record is consistent with Uncle Dubya's service record.
urbancowgirl
So sick of all the TX bashing on TDB.
Perry only got 39% of TX to vote for him. But we don't have runoffs in TX so plurality wins. Stop associating every single Texan with with secession-boy. Most of us (60% !!!) are smart people who DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM.
Uncommonsense
Yeah, only in Texas do they elect idiots? What about Minnesota electing Bachmann? Or SC electing Joe Wilson? Or Georgia electing Newt? etc. etc.
retired-army-1SG
Gotta go with you on this one cowgirl... I was stationed in TX (Ft. Hood) three times in my 21 years and always found the folks there to be fair... the same thing happens to the South, by those who would attempt to assuage their own guilt by trying to use us as a foil for all things racist...
robwriter
Bushes: money, war at a safe distance, Texas, and money.
penalcolony
" . . . this young man is serving his country in uniform . . ."
He's primarily served himself, by choosing the most risk-free way to put military service on his political resume.
roadhunter
Concise, and well stated. Probably the best comment on this story so far.
OldJoe
Apparently visceral psychological transference is alive and well. Sin of the fathers? Perhaps the younger Bush could have a job as a Freudian psychologist (assuming they still exist in this pill therapy age) for Bush haters of course; extreme right wingers would require a different therapist, someone they instinctively dislike. But perhaps my medication is affecting my quasi-misanthropic head.
JoelHoshkins
Kudos to George P. It's good to see a Hispanic Republican who is so accomplished at 33 and who is willing to risk his life for the safety of our country and the world at large. Thank God for brave men and women such as this. I'd gladly vote for George P.
getkicksonrte66
what a fluffy pile of crap
thankulord13
He accomplished because of nepotism. Has nothing to do with hard work.
Lilli917
Want to bet that his attendance records will get lost? That sure is a much nicer assignment than my family members got over there.
roooth
Really? My Hispanic son put his life on the line at 22 by joining the Marines - and not so he could run for office.
But he isn't a rich Republican, so I guess that doesn't count for you.
Uncommonsense
What has he accomplished?
gm1000
did obama serve his country?
jsdc007
If by serving, you mean did he serve in the military, then no. But then neither did the patron saint of Republicans, Ronald Reagan. And if REALLY serving in the military (as opposed to prancing around in military gear) meant anything to Republicans, then they wouldn't (a) have impugned a real war hero (John Kerry); or (b) continue to deny vets their basic benefits.
roooth
Thank you.
JUSTMYOPINION7
Well, as usual you mind numbing liberals are wrong. However, Bill Clinton didn't serve either. But Ronald Reagan:
Ronald Wilson Reagan enrolled in a series of home-study Army Extension Courses on 18 March 1935. After completing 14 of the courses, he enlisted in the Army Enlisted Reserve on 29 April 1937, as a Private assigned to Troop B, 322nd Cavalry at Des Moines, Iowa. He was appointed Second Lieutenant in the Officers Reserve Corps of the Cavalry on 25 May 1937. On June 18 of that year Reagan, who had just moved to Los Angeles to begin his film career, accepted his Officer's Commission and was assigned to the 323rd Cavalry.
Lieutenant Reagan was ordered to active duty on 19 April 1942. Due to eyesight difficulties, he was classified for limited service only, which excluded him from serving overseas. His first assignment was at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation at Fort Mason, California, as liaison officer of the Port and Transportation Office. Upon the request of the Army Air Forces (AAF), he applied for a transfer from the Cavalry to the AAF on 15 May 1942; the transfer was approved on 9 June 1942. He was assigned to AAF Public Relations and subsequently to the 1st Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California. Reagan was promoted to First Lieutenant on 14 January 1943 and was sent to the Provisional Task Force Show Unit of This Is The Army at Burbank, California. Following this duty, he returned to the 1st Motion Picture Unit, and on 22 July 1943 was promoted to Captain.
southernyankee
He served his community. In many countries across the world servicing your community is an honorable thing except republicans here make it a dirty word. How sad. How many hours have you put in?
indieinva
Yes. As someone who earned top honors with a law degree from Harvard, he gave up a very lucrative opportunity to earn big bucks on Wall Street (unlike George P here) to take a low-paying job as a community organizer in Chicago. He helped poor and disenfranchised people get together to rid their neighborhoods of gang activity and got them involved in the political process. How is that not serving your country?
thankulord13
Thank you for setting the record straight.
roooth
If there are no blood soaked war profits, Republicans don't count it.
thankulord13
Did Dumbya Bush serve his country?
DocHumboldt
Did Dick Cheney?
roooth
"gm1000
did obama serve his country?"
He IS serving his country - and he has the biggest bullseye on his back that anyone could imagine - so, you may want to get real here about personal courage - Obama has it, P - not so much.
If you will remember, Obama was one of the few who told the truth about Iraq from the start and voted against invading - and he was right. P was out selling the war he refused to fight. BIG difference.
Obama sees the big picture - waiting until war is inevitable means you waited too long. The time to fight wars is when you can stop them from starting in the first place. But you have to have someone in office who gets that - and no Bush ever has, and that's because Bushes see war as a revenue stream.
Baddchild
George P. Bush: Young, intelligent, good looking, Hispanic, conservative.... hmmm I sense a pattern here.
Sarah Palin: Young, intelligent, good looking, Woman, conservative....
Condi Rice: Young, intelligent, good looking, Black Woman, conservative....
Clarence Thomas Young, intelligent, good looking, Black Man, conservative....
yes every liberals nightmare, he too must be destroyed.
Liberalism - where racism and sexism is still allowed to thrive....
Ottoheinz
You're like the conservative version of the Daily Show, except retarded.
unclelew
Otto: Thank you for kicking baddchild. Saves me a gray cell or two.
thankulord13
You lost me at Sarah Palin and intelligence being in the same sentence. So for every minority GOP you gave me I can give you ten Democrats who are intelligence. Let's talk about real intelligent people...
Hillary Clinton: Young, Intelligent, good looking, woman, liberal
Sonia Sotomayer: Young, intelligent, good looking, woman, Hispanic, liberal
Cory Booker: Young, intelligent, good looking, Black man, liberal
Barack Obama: Young intelligent, good looking, Black man, liberal
Michelle Obama: Young intelligent, good looking, Black woman, liberal
Susan Rice: Young intelligent, good looking, Black woman, liberal
Adrian Fenty: Young intelligent, good looking Black man, liberal
Antonio Villaraigosa: Young intelligent, good looking, Black man, liberal
I can keep this going all day long.
Conservatives- Where the true racist, sexist and homophobics live.
This list is the Conservatives worst nightmare because these people are actually intelligent. Sarah Palin intelligent... you must be on the same stuff Rush got busted doing.
Baddchild
you left out
Vera Baker: Young intelligent, good looking, Black woman, liberal....
what ever happened to her??????
roadhunter
Should have left out Sotomayer. Not a very good example of good looking.
geekhere
Hillary Clinton & Michelle Obama are good looking?
ELNIKO7
Antonio Villaraigosa - intelligent. He couldn't get into any accredited law school, so he paid for his law degree from an unaccredited "law school" (and that's being very liberal saying that). Intelligent - yes, he knows how to play the card, mayor of the second largest Mexican citizen inhabitated city, only after years of being a member of a seccionist and racist organization. You should come to LA to see just how great this guy is.
ELNIKO7
Sonia Sotomayer: you left out racist.
ELNIKO7
Michelle Obama: "For the first time in my life I am proud of my Country". Only proud of her country because of self-gain. I've lived in four different countries (other than US), and have visited more than 30. I've never held political office or profited it from and I am proud of the US. It didn't take me or a family member being elected to political office to be proud of the US. People like her are dangerous to the liberty of this country.
roooth
George, Sarah, Condi, Thomas - you left out some other VERY important characteristics they all seem to share;
Ethically challenged, self-absorbed, self-aggrandizing, narcissistic, liars.
vonTim
James Earl Jones: old, Black Man, Darth Vader.
NotFooledTX
Finally a bush having to pay the consequences of their familiar stupidity.
Just another bush poser with an alterior motive.
drlg12
Ulterior, even.
Baddchild
With the comments above we see just how liberals feel about our fine men and women who serve their country. Their loathing and hatred for our men and women in uniform is a disgrace to this country and to the memories of those lost.
What does George P. got to do to get the respect of liberals? Maybe he can get a couple superficial wounds, write up his own purple hearts to hurry up and get out of the warzone, come home and pretend to throw "his" medals over the fence at the white house, call his fellow soldiers murderers and rapist in resemblence of Genghis Kahn... yes they'll love him then.
To you liberals and to the commies in the 0bama WH, I quote John Lennon... "If you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow"
indieinva
Tired, old stereotyping that only conservatives believe. More 'liberals' in Congress have served or had children serve in the military than 'conservatives' by the way. I am a military spouse and I voted for Obama. You must not know very many people currently in the military (usually folks that throw out this stupidity don't). If you did, you would know that the military is one of the most diverse groups of Americans under one umbrella. They do NOT all support Republicans in lock-step. You obviously didn't see the reception Obama received when he stopped by Camp Victory in Iraq last spring.
Your vitriol is based on pure stupidity.
thankulord13
They have nothing else but to make it like we don't support the men and women of our military, when in fact nobody has insulted the military just the Bush that is using it for political gain. The Con's have a comprehension problem.
Baddchild
I just spent Friday night at the American Legion.... 0bama and liberals are not very popular there. I especial enjoy the Hanoi Jane targets placed in the urinals. Republicans overwhelmingly win the military vote for a reason.... they support the military. They don't say "we support the military too" and then post how the naval reserves are not real miltary.
unclelew
Conservative warmongers who have not served: Rove, Kristol, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, Krauthammer, Gaffney, Morris, Hannity, O'Reilly,
Malkin, Ingraham, Savage, Limbaugh et cetera. They all had better things to do, according to Cheney.
MariosRight
Parachuting into the front lines? Please. He joined the Naval Reserve for political creds and will most likely not be in any danger wherever he goes. Grampa was the only Bush who was the real deal in wartime.
DocHumboldt
"...But, if you want money for people with minds that hate, all I can tell you is: Brother, you'll have to wait..."
roooth
I guess you must have missed the 2004 REPUBLICAN National Convention where fine upstanding members of the GOP wore those adorable "Purple Heart Bandaids" to mock service men and women who had been injured in battle.
I guess you missed how they lied about real military heroes, like Max Clelland, because their leaders were AWOL draft dodgers.
Conservatives only love the military when they want to send them to die - cannon fodder for their wars of profit. But let a vet come home in need, or let an active duty soldier need body armour, and conservatives are nowhere to be found.
How proud you must be. As a veteran, and a hard-core liberal, and the mother of a veteran and an active duty Marine, Please allow me to say with all sincerity: screw you.
And you're welcome for the nearly 50 years of consecutive military service my liberal family has provided you.
pacifistgunslinger
Such stupidity. Libs and conservos served with me in Nam, but I didn't see Bush or Fat Cheney. Your attitude is one reason why I never joined the American Legion. A bunch of tough guys, stupid, but tough.
Veronicaxy
Calling American liberals names like commies who don't support the troops and then quoting *John Lennon* as your backup?
Cannot make this stuff up!
And btw, there are "fine men and women in uniform" who don't like this war either, but are there anyway. As we all are, with taxes if not more. Stop claiming pride in this country as belonging to one political party because you're wrong and if you aren't willing to see that, you're simply an American bigot.
retired-army-1SG
I voted for President Obama, and I served this country in the uniform of an Army NCO for 21 years, so I feel like I have at least a small footing from which to say this: you are a fool. You have fallen into the same trap that so many stumble into - you have mistaken the extremists for the majority.
There are a always a bitter parasitical few in the Left who denounce our military, but like those political-religious zealots who protested the funerals of our honorable fallen, those parasites no more represent the Democrats, or Liberals, than the members of the Westboro Baptist Church is filled with card carrying Republicans.
We who wore this uniform do not need you to defend us... better to be thought a fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
photoshock
This is beyond doubt one of the most polarizing issues of our time. To serve in the military is to put oneself in harms way, yet for the Navy and Air Force there are few casualties and fewer deaths.
George P. while admirably serving his country is just another poser in the world of politics! Do you actually think that the four-stars, who run this war are actually going to let this young
man anywhere near the front lines? Politics as usual! We will see this young man in one year, playing the political game
while thousands upon thousands of other young men and women, will be serving their fourth or fifth rounds of service in Iraq, Afghanistan and soon Iran, Syria and Lebanon.
Thank you.
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