Just FYI, Cruz/Rubio Were Both of Military Age for Iraq War I, Afghanistan, and Iraq War II, but

[TrollBuster9090]

...but, in true Cheney, Chickenhawk style, apparently they had 'other priorities.'


Watching Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio try to outdo each other last night on who would send the most American military force into Syria and Iraq I was again struck by the irony of how the people who are the first to advocate sending OTHER peoples' sons and daughters into war are the biggest chickens when they were the perfect age to fight one of America's wars.

Rubio and Cruz had their chance to fight in the last THREE WARS, and said "nope, we've got other priorities." Or maybe they just think that people who go to law school are too 'valuable' to end up splattered all over the inside of an M2 Bradley in the middle of nowhere?

First Iraq war: 1990
Rubio: Age 19
Cruz: Age 20

Afghanistan: 2001
Rubio: Age 30
Cruz: Age 31

Second Iraq war: 2003
Rubio: Age 31
Cruz: Age 32

[niyad]

1. very interesting point.

and donny boy was certainly of age for vietnam.

[hobbit709]

2. William Tecumseh Sherman

"it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated … that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation."

[loyalsister]

3. It's not like they dodged the draft

I almost didn't vote for a candidate because he enlisted to go to Afghanistan. It creeped me out because everyone who enlists knows they will probably kill people.

[TrollBuster9090]

5. But that's the whole point.

I'm not saying you have to sign up to fight in wars to be taken seriously as a politician. I'm saying you at least had to at least have signed up to fight wars when it was your turn if you're going to be a WARMONGERING politician. Lest you rightfully be labeled a hypocritical CHICKENHAWK, who is only acting tough and throwing other people into wars to compensate for your suppressed feelings of cowardice.

[loyalsister]

7. I think both have the same source

I see any attraction to war as compensatory machismo.
If anything, it's worse to be a war monger after been a part of war. I just don't see having voluntarily served in a war as making hawkish positions any more or less moral or palatable.

I think avoiding responsibility al a Bush, Chenney, Nugent, etc. is different.

[lpbk2713]

4. I find it shameless how they rattle their swords and want to draw blood.

As long as they can wage war from long distance it's fine with them.
Spineless assholes think it is just fine to have other people die or be
maimed on their say so as long as they can watch it on the evening
news and they can sleep in their own bed at night.

[TrollBuster9090]

6. Here's my favorite Jack Murtha clip regarding that. It's also the reason why you can Google

...why you can Google "big fat backside" and you get KARL ROVE at the top of your list. I always get a kick out of that.