Reply #4: Always a disgruntled former veteran

[Hubert Flottz]

The disgruntled grunts are always to blame for everything that's wrong with a mismanaged, misguided, misled, politically motivated war. David Rivkin, former Whitehouse legal advisor, might just as well go ahead and spit on the veterans... What does David Rivkin know about fighting a war? Has he been there done that? Probably not but he does know how to kiss Bush's ass, in front of God and everybody and that's what it takes to be "a well known to regular Newsnight audiences as an unashamed apologist for the Bush Administration" and a "Whitehouse legal advisor" and official Bushco Crony Corps/Royal court suckass...

ALWAYS THE VETERAN OR THE SOLDIER'S FAULT...to hear the cowards who were scared to serve in the military themselves:

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Rumsfeld alleged that these draftees "added no value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services over any sustained period of time, because the churning that took place, it took enormous amount of effort in terms of training, and then they were gone."

I'll say "then, they were gone!" Of the 58,152 Americans who gave their lives in Vietnam 20,352 of them were draftees. How dare the secretary of defense say these good and brave Americans "added no value, no advantage, to the United States armed services?"

Why would he slander the sacrifice of these brave men, dishonor their memory and rub salt in their families' wounds?

Certainly a man as smart as Rumsfeld knows that the draft was specifically intended to trigger volunteers. Faced with the certainty of a future draft call, many young men chose to "volunteer" because then they could select which branch of the service they preferred and, if qualified, the specialized training they desired. more...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/20/column.shields.opinion.rumsfeld/index.html

ALWAYS...the disgruntled grunts that do all their fighting and dying and then they come home and their LEADERS wipe their feet on them and steal from them! WHY wouldn't a VETERAN be Disgruntled?