Friday, August 26, 2005

Fun With Maps

Interesting. Well, I guess Operation Yellow Elephant is still going strong.

It would go right in line with the rest of these wankers (entire list from awolbush.com) :
  • George Will, did not serve
  • Chris Matthews, Mediawhore, did not serve.
  • Bill O'Reilly, did not serve
  • Paul Gigot, did not serve.
  • Bill Bennett, Did not serve
  • Pat Buchanan, did not serve
  • Rush Limbaugh, did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst' -ass warts.
  • Michael Savage (aka Michael Alan Weiner) - did not serve, too busy chasing herbs and botany degrees in Hawaii and Fiji
  • John Wayne, did not serve
  • Pat Robertson - claimed during 1986 campaign to be a "combat veteran." In reality, was a "Liquor Officer."
  • Bill Kristol, did not serve
  • Sean Hannity, did not serve.
  • Kenneth Starr, did not serve
  • Antonin Scalia, did not serve
  • Clarence Thomas, did not serve
  • Ralph Reed, did not serve
  • Michael Medved, did not serve
  • Charlie Daniels, did not serve
  • Ted Nugent, did not serve
  • Radio Host Phil Hendrie, did not serve.
  • Senator Richard Shelby, did not serve (1)
  • Senator Jon Kyl, R-AZ - did not serve (1, 2)
  • Senator Tim Hutchison, R-AR - did not serve (1, 2)
  • Rep. Christopher Cox, R-CA, fifth-ranking Republican in Congress - did not serve. (1)
  • Representative Saxby Chambliss, Georgia - did not serve (1, 2), had a "bad knee" (yet somehow feels he has a right to attack Max Cleland's patriotism)
  • Former Representative JC Watts - did not serve (1, 2)
  • Jack Kemp, did not serve (1, 2) (was unfit because of a knee injury, though he heroically continued as a National Football League quarterback for another eight years - source)
  • Former Vice President Dan Quayle, avoided Vietnam service, got a slot in the journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard when the unit was at 150% capacity (at least he showed up for his duty, unlike GW) (1, 2)
  • Eliot Abrams, did not serve (1, 2) (however, played a key role in subverting democracy in South America)
  • Paul Wolfowitz, did not serve (1, 2)
  • Former Representative Vin Weber, did not serve (1, 2)
  • Richard Perle, did not serve (1, 2) (is the current bloodshed in the Middle East a direct result of his treasonous meddling in Clinton Administrstion foreign policy?)
  • Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy - did not serve. (1)
  • Rudy Giuliani, did not serve (1, 2)
  • Michael Bloomberg, did not serve (1, 2)
  • George Pataki, did not serve (1, 2)
  • Spencer Abraham, did not serve
  • John Engler, did not serve (1, 2)
  • Lindsey Graham (R-SC) - website used to claim service as a "Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm veteran." A current biographical website makes no such claim. In reality, was a National Guard lawyer who never left South Carolina during the Gulf War.
  • Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA, did not serve (1)
  • Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA/49th, there were some problems with his service.
  • Rep. John M. McHugh, R-NY - avoided the draft, did not serve (1)
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger, CA Republican Governor - went AWOL from his Austrian army base to enter a bodybuilding competition
  • Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - avoided the draft, did not serve.
  • Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey - avoided the draft, did not serve.
  • House Majority Leader Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve (1). "So many minority youths had volunteered ... that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself."
  • House Majority Whip Roy Blunt - did not serve
  • Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve.
  • Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, R-KY - did not serve (1)
  • Rick Santorum, R-PA, third ranking Republican in the Senate - did not serve. (1)
  • Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott - avoided the draft, did not serve.
  • Former Speaker Newt Gingrich - avoided the draft, did not serve (1, 2)
  • Former President Ronald Reagan - due to poor eyesight, served in a noncombat role making movies for the Army in southern California during WWII. He later seems to have confused his role as an actor playing a tail gunner with the real thing.
  • GW Bush - decided that a six-year Nat'l Guard commitment really means four years. Still says that he's "been to war."
  • VP Cheney - several deferments (1, 2), the last by marriage (in his own words, "had other priorities than military service") (1)
  • Att'y Gen. John Ashcroft - did not serve (1, 2); received seven deferment to teach business ed at SW Missouri State
  • Jeb Bush, Florida Governor - did not serve. (1)
  • Karl Rove - avoided the draft, did not serve (1), too busy being a Republican.