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July 9, 2006
McGovern Honors Draft Dodgers in Canada
George McGovern, the moonbat who managed to win a single state (Massachusetts, naturally) in the 1972 presidential race, is older now, but no wiser. He's been up in Canada, denouncing his country's policies from foreign soil and participating in a depraved ceremony to honor those who skittered off to Canada like cockroaches looking for the nearest dark crack rather than defend freedom from totalitarianism during the Vietnam War.
The war against Islamofascism in Iraq is "needless and mistaken," according to McGovern, who also opines that "history will be on the side of the Canadians" for welcoming American drafter dodgers during Vietnam.
Tom Hayden, former spouse of Hanoi Jane Fonda, was also on hand, pathetically attempting to revive his hippie-era glory days by demanding that the Canadian government treat American deserters as generously as it did draft dodgers a generation ago.
About 50,000 draft dodgers headed north of the border because they had too much "courage and wisdom" to risk their lives when their country needed them. Fortunately, quite a few of them are still up there, even after the amnesty Jimmy Carter granted them in 1977. In an appalling perversion of the concept of honor, a statue has been unveiled to commemorate their self-serving cowardice.
The statue depicts a Canadian welcoming two American draft-dodgers. It will be permanently housed at an art gallery in Nelson, British Columbia.
The Sierra Times quotes a couple of guys who weren't courageous enough to run away and hide, but who went to Vietnam and faced deprivation and death on behalf of their country and democratic civilization. They don't seem to think much of McGovern or the statue. Said a vet who later served as an NYC police officer:
Now we're honoring cowards and turncoats? I never thought I'd see the day. What's happening with this country?
Another vet currently serving as a police officer in New Jersey felt the same way:
Those yellow bellies have some nerve glorifying their cowardice. It's disgusting.
Even Massachusetts voters might agree.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 9, 2006 8:21 AM
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Little know fact: More Canadians came to United States and volunteered for service during the Vietnam War, than there were Americans who ran to Canada as deserters and draft dodgers. But you'll never hear that from the MSM.
Posted by: phil at July 9, 2006 6:14 PM
Sorry about the typos. I was distracted. I was watching NASCAR.
I have the perfect idea for a memorial for the deserters: A guy in a San Diego Chicken outfit being embraced by somebody wearing a Bullwinkle J. Moose costume.
Posted by: phil at July 9, 2006 6:59 PM
