I’m contemptuous of any chickenhawk president. They have the power to send women and men to do what they were too scared to do.
Junior Bush’s daddy helped secure him a hard-to-get position in the National Guard, where Bush successfully protected Texas against any potential North Vietnamese invasion. He was asked about his National Guard assignment in 1988. He audaciously replied that if we had sent the Guard, Vietnam would have turned out differently.
We all know what happened with this chickenhawk’s decision.
Cadet Bone Spur’s daddy had a podiatrist, who was one of his tenants, secure him a medical deferment.
Both presidents were too cowardly, too terrified to fight alongside those of us who did.
Trump said he “was not afraid of boots on the ground” in Venezuela. Of course not. Just like 50 years ago, these boots will not be his. Will this chickenhawk’s decision turn out as disastrously as Bush’s?
Dan Gipple
Southeast side
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