Memorial Day

Á morgun er Memorial Day í bandaríkjunum, en þá eigum við að heiðra 'our fallen heroes' - þ.e. bandaríska hermenn sem látist hafa við að verja föðurlandið, og reyndar líka hina sem látist hafa í "baráttunni gegn heimskommunismanum", eða öðrum misklókum þriðjaheimsstríðum.

En í tilefni þess tók Daily Kos saman þennan lista yfir helstu leiðtoga republikanaflokksins, og svo helstu hugsuði og talsmenn þeirra í útvarpi og sjónvarpi.

• President George W. Bush - served four years of a six years Nat'l Guard commitment, some say after daddy's friends pulled some strings to keep him out of Vietnam. The circumstances of his early separation from state-side service are still controversial (details)
• Karl Rove, occasional Deputy Chief of Staff and alleged full time smear artist, escaped the draft and did not serve
• VP Dick Cheney - several deferments, by marriage and timely fatherhood  
• Former VP Chief of Staff I. Lewis Scooter Libby - did not serve
• Secretary of State and former NSA Condaleeza Rice - did not serve
• Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve.
• Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - did not serve.
• Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay - did not serve
• House Majority Whip Roy Blunt - did not serve
• Majority Whip Mitch McConnell - did not serve
• Rick Santorum, third ranking Republican in the Senate - did not serve.
• Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott - did not serve
• Rush Limbaugh - did not serve
• Sean Hannity - did not serve
• Pat Buchanan - did not serve
• Ann Coulter - did not serve
• Ralph Reed - did not serve
• Bill O'Reilly - did not serve
• Michael Savage - did not serve
• Bill Kristol - did not serve
  

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