NYT Bob Herbert: Where Is The Shame? Must read column.

[stopbush]

Please read the entire column via the hyperlink. Herbert names names and calls out the lack of military service and/or draft dodging of all of the major players in the WH, including chimpy, cheney, wolfoshitz and the rest..

The New York Times
August 27, 2004
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Where Is The Shame?
By BOB HERBERT

Max Cleland, minus the three limbs he lost in Vietnam, showed up in his wheelchair outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Wednesday to suggest that the president take the simple and decent step of condemning the slime that is being spread by Bush supporters against the war record of John Kerry.

He didn't get very far. The president was busy vacationing and had neither the time nor the inclination to meet with Mr. Cleland, a former U.S. senator who was himself the target of vicious, unconscionable attacks by the G.O.P. slime machine when he ran for re-election in Georgia in 2002. Later, at a press conference under the hot Crawford sun, Mr. Cleland told reporters: "The question is, where is George Bush's honor? Where is his shame?"

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In what is surely the most important election of the last half-century, we seem trapped in the politics of the madhouse. What is incredible is that these attacks on men who served not just honorably, but heroically, are coming from a hawkish party that is controlled by an astonishing number of men who sprinted as far from the front lines as they could when they were of fighting age and their country was at war.

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George W. Bush ought to call off his dogs. The one thing we ought to be able to do in this hyperpoliticized era is rally in a bipartisan way behind those who have been willing to fight our wars. The privileged classes no longer feel an obligation to put their lives - or their children's lives - on the line in defense of the nation. The very least they could do is insist that those who have put themselves in harm's way be treated with respect.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/27/opinion/27herbert.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

[Sugarbleus]

1. Fabulous article. Thanx for posting... n/t

[DemBones DemBones]

2. Another excellent op ed. It is insane that vets

are supporting a guy who weaseled out of seeing combat with an easy TANG assignment over a guy who volunteered for combat.

[The Zanti Regent]

3. Gee, Mr. Herbert, why does the Screw York Times kiss the Chimp's ass?

Except for Krugman, everyone else at the Screw York Times stands in line to kiss Bush's ass on a regular basis!

[indepat]

4. And Mr. Herbert?

[Catfight]

5. I agree, I no longer respect medals, ANY medals. I need to know

that someone really bleed hard to believe they deserved a medal now. Bush still hasn't apologized so now anyone with medals didn't really deserve them. Especially if they volunteered!

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Class warfare is not a bad political strategy; it is a concrete fact

Those who dismiss class warfare as a "bad idea" are simply wrong and too often disingenuous.

In the neoconservative world, the rich call for wars, for no apparent reason or for reasons that are blatantly false, and the rest of us die in them. Honor and valor are for suckers.

[glitch]

7. Hard hitting - good read nt

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