Good Choice For Veterans Day Ceremony?

I have no knowledge of D*ick Cheney, (note of myLot censors: the first name is a shortened form of Richard, -- and if you think that is obscene, well consider the cost of going to changing the names of every single person and every book written by people of that name, etc.quite a financial cost. )but if he unable to serve because of medical conditions like being 4F, then he should be allowed to speak. However, if he had no legitimate reason to not take up military service, if he were afraid he might get hurt, then he should not have spoken.

Mr. Cheney has to play the role, anniepa, much like the rest of them. After all, they do make a fine group of actors, don't they?

How about a person who is a Draft Card Burner, Goes overseas, on an Educational Deferment, and speaks out agains the troops. What about a person who has no respect for the military and cuts the budget such that we lose more men in training mishaps because of equiptment failure. (He did increas the budget once to get NAFTA Passes over the military objection because it was to be used for a plane they did not want or need but it was produced in a key Congressman district. He voted for NAFTA.) Read what the former Secret Service, the "Football" carrier, and the pilots have to say about him. He and his wife have the nerve to claim they support the troops. It was also the Democratic Party that went to court to block the votes of the men and women serving overseas because the absentee ballots could not be postmarked by the US Postal service before election day. They were postmarked by the Military Postal Service. The democratics also tried to force a change in the ballot weeks before the election, the result would be that the ballots could not get to the troops and back in time to be counted. Any democratic who speaks on Veterns Day or Memorial day should make you sick. Just like having Senator Ted Kennedy describe what it is like to drown - Shouldn't Mary Jo Kopenck be doing that?

Eh, I personally dislike the man, but I think anyone should be allowed to honor our veterans. However, it was wrong for him and his ilk to sling mud at Bill Clinton for doing exactly what Cheney did.

I totally agree with you annie. The way I look at Cheney being at Arlington is that it's just used as another PR stunt for the WHite House to say "WE care about our troops". I know that may be a little off base, but I think that's all they are concerned with. C'mon, "different priorities"? How many people went to Vietnam and then came home to finish their education? I guess my question is this, for a man that would go on to hold such esteemed public offices what would be a greater priority than fighting in his military? The man is a hypocrit and the total wrong choice to speak at Arlington.

I am ashamed to admit annie, I almost expected this from someone here. V.P. Cheney is in fact the V.P. So it is naturaly the president's or vice president's place to do this. The same question came up when Clinton did it durring his tenure, though I did not have an issue with it, despite my detest for his ideals because it was his position and was in fact apropriate.