Pat Buchanon- The Orignal Chickenhawk

[redstateblues]

He's like a bad flashback to the Nixon Administration- His Viet Nam War fervor sickens me

[DemoTex]

1. See my just-posted piece on this board.

Buchanan was particularly bad tonight. I think I let him get my B/P up. His voice has a high-pitched whine non-unlike a screaming Pratt&Whittney JT-9 at takeoff power.

[Ghetto_Boy]

2. This wesite is running reallly slow. Know why??? "BUSH SUCKS"

[Lindacooks]

3. So what did little Pattie do during Vietnam?

I don't know, but my bet is some kind of chickenshit deferment.

[redstateblues]

4. I can't remember exactly- but it was like Rush-suspect

[Pepperbelly]

6. he had bad knees which, oddly enough, have not stopped his ...

recreational jogging at all. I had to quit running because of my knees. I guess Pat's problem is different, eh?

[A_Possum]

5. How come he's against Iraq and for Vietnam?

That makes no sense.

Flip-flopper.

[redstateblues]

7. He was a speechwriter for tricky dick nixon

[machiado]

8. This was posted at CCN (Clark community network)

Buchanan was Army ROTC, Georgetown University; disqualified from active duty by sports injury.

http://quest.cjonline.com/buchanan/

more from:

http://www.realchange.org/buchanan.htm

Despite his harsh pro-Vietnam War rhetoric, Pat Buchanan never served, in war or in peace. The reason why has always been murky - we've read or been emailed that he had flat feet, was wall eyed (the opposite of cross-eyed), or had an arthritic knee.

Buchanan himself said that in 1960, when he was 21, the draft board rejected him because he had Reiter's syndrome. What's that, you ask? It's a form of arthritis usually caused by chlamydia, a venereal disease (at least in America. In third world countries, a form of dysentery is the most common cause.)

When pressed, a Buchanan aide said that if, indeed, sexual contact is the only way to get Reiter's, Buchanan would never have admitted it. That's an honest if cynical response, but it assumes that Buchanan knows what causes Reiter's. He also could have had chlamydia for years, even to this day, without knowing it; chlamydia often has no symptoms, especially in men. Notice also that this aide's statement is not a denial. The Buchanan campaign has refused to confirm or deny whether Pat has had chlamydia or any other venereal diseases.