(Ed note: As thousands of American troops remain in harm’s way in Iraq, and with no end in sight to the cycle of violence triggered by America’s invasion, it is worth examing how the architects and cheerleaders for the war avoided military service)
• President George W. Bush – served four years of a six years Nat’l Guard commitment, some say after daddy’s friends pulled some strings to keep him out of Vietnam. The circumstances of his early separation from state-side service are still controversial.
• Karl Rove, occasional Deputy Chief of Staff and alleged full time smear artist, did not serve
• VP Dick Cheney –several deferrments, by marriage and timely fatherhood
• Former VP Chief of Staff I. Lewis Scooter Libby – did not serve
• Secretary of State and former NSA Condaleeza Rice – did not serve
• Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist – did not serve.
• Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert – did not serve.
• Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay – did not serve
• House Majority Whip Roy Blunt – did not serve
• Majority Whip Mitch McConnell – did not serve
• Rick Santorum, third ranking Republican in the Senate – did not serve.
• Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott – did not serve
• Rush Limbaugh – did not serve
• Sean Hannity – did not serve
• Pat Buchanan – did not serve
• Ann Coulter – did not serve
• Ralph Reed – did not serve
• Bill O’Reilly – did not serve
• Michael Savage – did not serve
• Bill Kristol – did not serve
