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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 08:32 AM
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Look who addressed the VFW Convention...

"Me, I had other priorities besides serving in foreign wars...but I've seen Platoon
four times--INTENSE!"

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/08/20060828-4.html
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 08:42 AM
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1. Raise your right hand and repeat after me: I, Dick Cheney, do solemnly
swear........
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 08:44 AM
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2. "That was FOUR deferments, my friends. . .
While you were crawling around in the mud at taxpayer expense, I MADE something of myself. That's what entitles me to make all the important decisions for you in this country. I'm just smarter than you are."
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rubberducky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 08:45 AM
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3. Why would the VFW want people who haven`t served.........
to speak at thier conventions? It doesn`t make sense to me.
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 08:46 AM
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4. Where's The Bullshit Protectors? (nt)
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 08:47 AM
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5. Dead-Eye Dick
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 09:22 AM
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6. About that "Help is on the way" ...
Let's count up the help:

Item: Cuts in benefits.

Item: Involuntary extensions of service.

Item: Inadequate equipment.

Item: Paying for own food.

Here's chickenhawk O'LOOFAH receiving the VFW Errect Loofah Award
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 09:39 AM
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7. Why in the world would they want HIM to speak?
What an insult to veterans who actually DID serve this country.
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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 09:46 AM
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9. There have been worse insults...
...he even spoke at the convention for the Order of the Purple Heart last year.


This was the Chickenhawk who was making light of John Kerry's Purple Hearts by sporting a "Purple Bandaid" at the Repuke convention.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050818-4.html
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jedr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-29-06 09:41 AM
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8. The VFW is a out-dated organization which does little;
Edited on Tue Aug-29-06 09:47 AM by jedr
For anyone who was in combat. It does, however, give the town drunks a cheap place to drink and keep them off the streets. They will sober up long enough to come out and bury you if you request a military funeral, but I would rather see them do something for the people when they're alive. Maybe some help on PTSD for the people who just served three or more back to back tours in a war zone. Sorry, John Wayne never served and is dead and gone, and that wasn't the way it was anyway. So let them have Dick.....nobody else want him! ( Sorry, can not edit out the bottom.)






















it does give the town drunk a cheap place to drink:nuke:
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