Where the hell were you in the Vietnam War?

Former Senator Max Cleland demands of Cheney: (via skippy)

"Where the hell were you in the Vietnam War? If you had gone to Vietnam like the rest of us, maybe you would have learned something about war. You can't keep troops on the ground forever. You gotta have a mission. You gotta have a purpose.

You can't keep sending 'em back and back and back with no mission and no purpose. As a matter of fact, the real enemy is Al Qaeda, it's Al Qaeda stupid, it's not in Iraq."

So tell us, Mr. Cheney, what IS our purpose? Why are we in Iraq?

Compare and contrast.

Served

Never served, he famously said,"I had other priorities in the '60s than military service."