Ahhhhhh, has anyone brought up the striking fact that if one looks down the list of prominent Dems that are vets and compares that list with their Repub, flag wavin' "support-the-troppers" one sees a pattern. Seems that the Repiubs PR team has done a fine job of casting them as the party that supports our troops. Problem is, they may support 'um butr they sure don't want to be 'um:

Dems who served:

Richard Gephardt
Davis Bonior
Tom Daschle
Al Gore
Bob Kerry
Daniel Inouye
John Kerry
Charles Rangel
Max Cleland
Ted Kennedy
Tom Harkin
Jacl Reed
Fritz Hollings
Leonard Boswell
Pete Peterson
Mike Thompson
Bill McBride
Gray Davis
Pete Stark
Chuck Robb
Howell Heflin
George McGovern
Jimmy Carter
Walter Mondale
Tom Lantos

Repubs who did *not* serve

Dick Cheney
Dennis Nassert
Tom DeLay
Roy Blunt
Bill Frist
Mitch McConnell
Trent Lott
John Ashcroft
Jeb Bush
Karl Rove
*Saxby Chambliss
Paul Wolfowitz
Richard Perle
Newt Gungrich
Don Rumsfeld
**George W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Phil Gramm
JC Watts
Dan Quaylr
George Pataki
***Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rudy Giuliani
Spenser Abraham

*Responsible for linking combat disable veteran Max Cleland to terrorists...

**AWOL

***Awaol from Aurian army

Republican Apologists who did not serve:

Sean Hannity
Rush Limbaugh
Bill O'Reilly
Michael Savage
George Will
Chris Matthews
Pat Buchannon
Bill Kristol
Ken Starr
Antonin Scalia
Clarence Thomas
Ted "2nd Ammenedment" Nugent

Hey, I'm still a Nadar Greenie but lets get real here about 'supporting the troops"... There are some difference between Dems and Repubs and this is probably one of them. Dems serve but, fir the most part, their rival fraternity boys and girls don't but sure nuff want to wear that "support the troops" badge...

Bobert