Iraq War Draws Veterans Into Politics

[NoAmericanTaliban]

After 20 years in the Air Force and Bronze Star service during the 1991 Gulf War, Democrat Jay Fawcett decided to come home and run for Congress, largely out of disgust with the way American troops were being used in Iraq.

"I think it's just gotten to the point where a significant number of us who've served are looking at this administration particularly - and Congress doesn't get off the hook - and saying, 'What're you doing? What's the plan?'" he said.

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The fighting Democrats, as some call themselves, say their military experience could give them the credibility to criticize the war without being dismissed out of hand by the GOP as naive and weak on defense, as the Bush administration has often done.

"One of the things I think is behind this movement is, we're not stupid in the military. We know when we've been used and misused," Navy veteran Bill Winter, a Democrat who hopes to challenge GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo in the Republican suburbs of Denver.

Former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga., who lost both legs and an arm while serving in Vietnam, said the Iraq war veterans running as Democrats will offer "a direct rebuttal" to the administration on the Iraq war........

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20060207/D8FKF1500.html



Maybe these vets will be are salvation to knocking the GOP out of control...

[electropop]

1. Because they're vets, the GOP will call them cowards.

They seem to have some bizarre way to make lunacy like that, stick in people's minds.