Reply #4: Russert was part of the Club

[Submariner]

Tim Russert, Brit Hume, Charlie Gibson, Chris Matthews, Dick cheney, Scooter Libby, Wolfowitz, Pearle, Billy Kristol, Bill O'Reilly, Chris Wallace, Fred Barnes, Mort Kondrake, et al all had something in common. ALL of those Vietnam era chickenhawk drum beaters NEVER served a minute of military service.

Thus, they could not draw a perspective of real life in a battle zone, didn't have the requisite life experiences that would give them the foresight to ask the right questions about Iraqnam, so being ignorant they all piled onto the Bush/Cheney bullshit wagon. It felt to me like that aforementioned crowd felt validated that they could come out of the draft-dodger closet, when world-class losers like 5-deferment Chaney and AWOL Bush came on the scene.