Here’s one:
If service in Vietnam or in uniform were the prerequisite for correct thinking on military and foreign-policy issues, then you’d think Veterans would all agree with each other.
Here’s another:
Vietnam is over. To judge people now on the basis of what they said or did then is to forget how emotionally riven we were. And how young and naive we were. … What’s more important now is what would a man do as president?”
Dirty fucking hippies? Traitorous ex-Generalissim Wesley Clark? Uh, not exactly.
The first one is from Jonah Goldberg (of Liberal Fascism infamy), and the second one from Kathleen Parker (heroine to all “full blooded Americans” everywhere)). Of course, both were spoken before Über war fighter John McCain became the GOP standard bearer. I suspect they’d eat those words if they could about now. Too bad for them no one can hide their past views from the power of google.
Which is why I didn’t provide links to their remarks. You can find them yourselves from the comfort of your barcalounger or Lazy Boy (well, if you have wireless broadband, that is). Isn’t that amazing?
But the more important point I want to make is that finally there’s something a couple of right wing morons and the incredibly brilliant and competent former NATO commander, Wes Clark, can agree upon: service in the military during wartime, even if you are John “I was tortured by Gooks which is why I confessed to war crimes” McCain, doesn’t automatically qualify you to be Commander in Chief. Now that’s bi-partisanship of which I can approve.
