I cant get onto myspace to post this so I will post it here and do it there later. This was on the New Hampshire Gazette website and Randi Rhodes read it on her show today. I love it. Enjoy
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Name: Donald "The Don" Rumsfeld Born: 1932 Employer: The U.S. Taxpayer Conflict Avoided: Korea Notes: When the shooting started in Korea Rummy here was either 18, or about to turn 18. Not to worry for him, though - he spent the war at Princeton, wearing a ROTC uniform. Once the war was over he flew jets for the Navy for a few years. Defenders of Rumsfeld will say he’s no chickenhawk - he served, and it’s not his fault the war ended before he got his commission. To which others answer, “plenty of farmers and mechanics and kids just out of high school served. Anyone as full of whatever that stuffing in him is, could have tried out for a battlefield commission.”
Ironically my dad was a mechanic when he was drafted for the army & "served" during the Korea war, but he never saw the battlefield either, mainly bc he told them he had no special skills (so as not to be fixing tanks on the front lines in Korea) so really Rummy could have served in korea & not ever gotten anything but an education in radar engineering like my daddy..
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Born: 1932
Employer: The U.S. Taxpayer
Conflict Avoided: Korea
Notes: When the shooting started in Korea Rummy here was either 18, or about to turn 18. Not to worry for him, though - he spent the war at Princeton, wearing a ROTC uniform. Once the war was over he flew jets for the Navy for a few years. Defenders of Rumsfeld will say he’s no chickenhawk - he served, and it’s not his fault the war ended before he got his commission. To which others answer, “plenty of farmers and mechanics and kids just out of high school served. Anyone as full of whatever that stuffing in him is, could have tried out for a battlefield commission.”
Ironically my dad was a mechanic when he was drafted for the army & "served" during the Korea war, but he never saw the battlefield either, mainly bc he told them he had no special skills (so as not to be fixing tanks on the front lines in Korea) so really Rummy could have served in korea & not ever gotten anything but an education in radar engineering like my daddy..
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Im confused.. I hope everythings alright!
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