Cowardly Republicans- received by email
MY FELLOW AMERICANS:
It is despicable to think that the Republicans would accuse Democrats from cutting and running at a time when Republicans have been doing this for many years. Consider the following:
(1) Republicans are “cutting and running” from the fact that our citizen’s of these United States and the People of the World that we should now end the war in Iraq.
(2) Republicans are “cutting and running” from the fact that our U.S. Citizens are tired of being lied to by Republicans and other U.S. Government Officials.
(3) Republicans are “cutting and running” from the American People by not protecting our privacy or our civil liberties.
(4) Republicans are “cutting and running” by not protecting our American Workers jobs by importing cheap labor and exporting good paying manufacturing jobs to pacify a New World Order or Globalization agenda that will only benefit big business interest.
(5) Republicans are “cutting and running” by not protecting our Citizens here at home from terrorist by not providing adequate border security, port security, job security, or transportation security in this Nation.
(6) Republicans are “cutting and running” to the bank by taking thousands if not millions of dollars from corporate lobbyist to pass legislation that will benefit big business and not the average American Working Consumers.
(7) Republicans are “cutting and running” from the largest deficit in this Nation’s history by continuing the war in Iraq, providing subsidy payments to big business, and by providing various tax cuts for the rich, while the American working taxpayers get the shaft by subsidizing the payments for these tax cuts.
(8) Republicans are “cutting and running” from our American young people by cutting their college education benefits for those American’s who cannot afford it.
(9) Republicans are “cutting and running” from the highest poverty rate in American History by cutting our poor and disabled citizens food stamps, housing assistance, home heating assistance, and medical benefits by slashing the entitlement budgets that assist these unfortunate American Citizens in order to financially supplement this unjust war in Iraq and also to provide tax cuts for the rich.
(10) Republicans are “cutting and running” from record high gasoline and natural gas prices by not imposing wind fall profits taxes on the oil companies, releasing crude oil from our National oil reserves that would lower our gasoline prices, or have they insisted that the oil firms be investigated for possible price manipulation.
The scary thing is, many Republicans don’t see “national emergency” and “war” as failures of the Bush/Cheney team.
It was under their watch that America was attacked by 19 mostly Saudi Arabian suicide hijackers. Bush and Cheney did not prevent the attack! And it was under their watch that Osama bin Laden has not been brought to justice. And under their watch that a disastrous invasion of Iraq was planned and executed, causing chaos and anarchy in an already volatile part of the world. A part of the world too unstable to survive a blow by the most dangerous and well-armed nuclear power in the world.
More violence and unrest have, of course, been the consequence of that armed invasion. And the subsequent occupation has no end in sight
SEE WHO SERVED,,, John Kerry has nothing to be sorry about…HE WAS TALKING ABOUT BUSH / CHENEY / RUMSFELT,AND ALL THE OTHER REPUBLICANS WHO STAYED HOME ,,WHEN KERRY AND OTHERS(D) WERE FIGHTING FOR THEM..AND STILL ARE..
Democrats
* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan.
1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
* Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.
* Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-’47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
* John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze
Star with Combat V Purple Hearts.
* John Edwards: did not serve.
* Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
* Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam.
* Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-1953.
* Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve,1968-74.
* Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army
Reserve 1979-91.
* Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII, receiving the Bronze Star and seven campaign ribbons.
* Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze Stars, and Soldier’s Medal.
* Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star and Legion of Merit.
* Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.
* Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam; Bronze Star with Combat V.
* Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
* Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
* Chuck Robb: Vietnam
* Howell Heflin: Silver Star
* George McGovern: Bomber pilot, many missions. Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
* Bill Clinton: Avoided service. with student deferments. Entered draft but received 311.
* Jimmy Carter: Annapolis grad. Seven years in the Navy.
* Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
* John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with 18 Clusters.
* Tom Lantos: Said to have served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul
Wallenberg.
* Wesley Clark: U.S. Army, 1966-2000, West Point,
Vietnam, Purple Heart, Silver Star. Retired 4-star general.
* John Dingell: WWII vet
* John Conyers: Army 1950-57, Korea
Republicans
* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom Delay: did not serve.
* House Whiip Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Had “other priorities.”
Several deferments, the last for wife’s pregnancy.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
* Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. “Bad knee.” The man who attacked Max Cleland’s patriotism.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Vin Weber: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* Jon Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve.
* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Donald Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as aviator and flight instructor.
* George W. Bush: six-year Nat’l Guard commitment (infour).
Issues of desertion and unfitness.
* Ronald Reagan: made war propaganda movies.
* Gerald Ford: Navy, WWII
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of
Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
* Bob Dole: Army officer WWII.
* Chuck Hagel: two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star, Vietnam.
* Duke Cunningham: nominated for Medal of Honor, Navy
Cross, Silver Stars, Air Medals, Purple Hearts.
* Jeff Sessions: Army Reserves, 1973-1986
* JC Watts: did not serve.
* Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
* G.H.W. Bush: Pilot in WWII. Shot down by the Japanese.
* Tom Ridge: Bronze Star for Valor in Vietnam.
* Antonin Scalia: did not serve.
* Clarence Thomas: did not serve
Pundits & Preachers
* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a ‘pilonidal
cyst.’)
* Bill O’Reilly: did not serve.
* Michael Savage: did not serve.
* George Will: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Paul Gigot: did not serve.
* Bill Bennett: did not serve.
* Pat Buchanan: did not serve.
* Bill Kristol: did not serve.
* Kenneth Starr: did not serve.
* Michael Medved: did not serve.
http://www.sunmt.org/sep30chron04.html
It seems that the wrong party and
people wrap themselves in the flag!
THE LIST,
a.. Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after “sexually explicit” e-mails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year-old boy.
a.. Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper was arrested for soliciting sex from a 13-year-old girl on the Internet.
a.. Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year-old girl.
a.. Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on suspicion of soliciting sex with an 8-year-old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.
a.. Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year-old girl and was sentenced to 10 years’ probation.
a.. Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year-old boy.
a.. Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business.
a.. Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano was arrested for sexually molesting a 14-year-old girl.
a.. Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13- and 14-year-old girls.
a.. Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.
a.. Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year-old girls.
a.. Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child pornography over the Internet.
a.. Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year-old girls.
a.. Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
a.. Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
a.. Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.
a.. Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
a.. Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an 11-year-old girl he murdered.
a.. Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor.
a.. Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years’ probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year-old girl.
a.. Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year-old black girl, which produced a child.
a.. Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a sexual affair with a female juvenile.
a.. Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
a.. Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year-old girls, one of whom appeared in an anti-Gore television commercial.
a.. Republican activist Lawrence E. King Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
a.. Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
a.. Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and
sentenced to one month in jail.
a.. Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
a.. Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
a.. Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.
a.. Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
a.. Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his stepdaughter.
a.. Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline was placed under house arrest for child molestation and possession of child pornography.
a.. Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
a.. Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
a.. Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police
on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
a.. Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year-old boy and possession of child pornography.
a.. Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year-old babysitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
a.. Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
a.. Republican talk-show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11-year-old girl.
a.. Republican anti-gay activist Earl “Butch” Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year-old girl after he attempted to stop a gay couple from adopting her.
a.. Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
a.. Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the Internet from a 14-year-old girl.
a.. Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year-old boy.
a.. Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e., exposing himself to children).
a.. Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year-old girl.
a.. Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a boy.
a.. Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
a.. Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.
a.. Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year-old girl.
a.. Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
a.. Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6 months in prison.
a.. Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer
and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
a.. Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his possession.
a.. Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the Internet.
a.. Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a “good military man” and “church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
a.. Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with four underage girls, including his daughter.
a.. Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.
a.. Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year-old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison.
a.. Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.
a.. Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year-old girl. Dasen, 62, who is married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex with a large number of young women.
a.. Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency. See excerpt of one prisoner’s report here and his full report here.