CNN: IF YOU CONFRONT CHICKENHAWKS IN YOUR DEBATES, MITT HAS SOME FIELDING TO DO!

[babylonsister]

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CNN: IF YOU CONFRONT CHICKENHAWKS IN YOUR DEBATES, MITT HAS SOME FIELDING TO DO!
Submitted by Linda Milazzo on Sun, 2007-06-03

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Once and for all, ask TOUGH questions of the candidates. Not trivialities about haircuts and personal residences which undermine the seriousness of the debate. Be adult. Be professional. Ask the candidates who want to control this nation what PERSONAL sacrifice they're willing to make on its behalf.

Don't accept ad nauseam responses like "hard work" as you have in the past, making the questioner as buffoonish as the 'responder.' Don't characterize simple walks across the stage as bullying, or sighs as inability to lead. Don't place summations in the hands of facile observers like William Bennett, Donna Brazile, and J.C. Watts.

Believe me, drama queens Wolf Blitzer, Paula Zahn, Bill Schneider and Tom Foreman are inflammatory and irresponsible enough.

Back to my customary challenge:

To every candidate on stage and off, regardless of political affiliation, if they support the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you must ask the critical questions I've requested so many times before (http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0817-33.htm).

- Who in your immediate family is now serving in this war?
- Who in your immediate family will soon serve in this war?
- Will your children or grandchildren EVER serve in this war?
- If yes, when and in what capacity?
- If no, WHY THE HELL NOT???

I mean, come on! America's history is filled with wealthy, politically powerful families who served valiantly in the military. Even George Herbert Walker Bush served heroically in World War II (or so it is said).

Just the opposite is true today.

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[Bluzmann57]

1. In my lifetime alone...

Eisenhower, Kennedy, even Nixon, Ford, Carter, all did military service. As you pointed out, so did bush, sr. If a candidate didn't do military service, that's ok, just don't push an illegal war. For that matter, even if you are a veteran, don't start illegal wars.

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2. It is also said, that GHWB joined the service to deflect criticism aimed at his

families dealings with the Nazis.