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Originally Posted by zrayr
you actually don't know what you are talking about.
US Liberals with first hand (war) experience:
George Washington
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Ulysses Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
James Madison
James Monroe
Sen Ted Kennedy
George McGovern ( WW II )
Sen. Jim Webb (Vietnam)
Sen. Chuck Robb (Vietnam)
Sen. Tom Harkins (Vietnam)
Senator Daniel Inouye ( WW II, awarded Congressional Medal of Honor)
Representative Jack Murtha
Representative Daniel K. Akaka (WW II )
and many others, past & present, including my own brother, now deceased, who was a Vietnam vet.
it's no coincidence that most of the returning Iraq vets who are running for Congress are running as Democrats.
Happy Thanksgiving
Z. Ray
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I disagree with the above list being liberals. A lot of the founders were small government people. Read some Thomas Jefferson sometime, he was definitely not a liberal. Read the Constitution and the limits it puts on the Federal government. The founders feared a Federal government that was too powerful.
I fought in Iraq in the Army, and I can tell you first hand there are not many libs in the military. I am a registered independent, and I don't trust either party. That said, the dems are taking us down a path right now that does not have a good ending. I think a viable third party would be great for the country. Will it ever happen? I don't know...