Cindy Sheehan "retires"

conyat
Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:46:17 +0000

The assorted leaders of the College Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) are cheerleaders for a war they are unwilling to fight.
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YAF chairman Erik Johnson, vice chairman Darren Marks and fourteen other national officials have posted brief autobiographies on YAF’s website. None of these bios indicate that the organization’s national leaders have served in the military or plan to in the future. [One of the 14 has military plans, although it wasn’t in his bio.]
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College Republicans also appear to be lacking in military aspirations. None of their board members–the controversial chairman Paul Gourley and officers Jess Beeson, Nathaniel Harding, Britton Alexander, Dan Schuberth and Tom Robins–boast any military experience. Their posted bios do not refer to any past, present or future military service, though they do describe in detail the postgraduate work and political aspirations of these young right-wingers.

…since the start of the Iraq War, these outfits have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Bush to support the war, but they have not stood alongside the soldiers doing the actual fighting and dying. They want someone else to do the hard work.



http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/14/opinion/main944449.shtml

Even as the government misses recruitment quotas, and soldiers are sent for third and fourth tours, the Yellow Elephant refuses to do anything but cheerlead from the sidelines and question the patriotism of men like Patrick Murphy who actually fought.

It’s a joke all right.