Here's our current administration's record on military service:
Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - avoided the draft, did not serve
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey - avoided the draft, did not serve.
House Majority Leader Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve (1). "So many minority youths had volunteered ... that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself."
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve.
Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, R-KY - did not serve
Rick Santorum, R-PA, third ranking Republican in the Senate - did not serve
Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott - avoided the draft, did not serve
Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld - served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as an aviator and flight instructor
GW Bush - decided that a six-year Nat'l Guard commitment really means four years. Still says that he's "been to war."
VP Cheney - several deferments, the last by marriage (in his own words, "had other priorities than military service")
Att'y Gen. John Ashcroft - did not serve; received seven deferments to teach business ed at SW Missouri State
Paul Wolfowitz, did not serve
Richard Perle, did not serve
Rudy Giuliani, did not serve
Michael Bloomberg, did not serve
George Pataki, did not serve
Jeb Bush - did not serve
Karl Rove - avoided the draft, did not serve
Spencer Abraham, did not serve
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) - website used to claim service as a "Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm veteran." In reality, was a National Guard lawyer who never left South Carolina during the Gulf War.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich - avoided the draft, did not serve
Phil Gramm - avoided the draft, did not serve, four (?) student deferments
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-CA, did not serve
Senator Richard Shelby, did not serve
Senator Jon Kyl, R-AZ - did not serve
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor R-CA - went AWOL from his Austrian army base to enter a bodybuilding competition
Rep. John M. McHugh, R-NY - avoided the draft, did not serve
Senator Tim Hutchison, R-AR - did not serve
Rep. Christopher Cox, R-CA, fifth-ranking Republican in Congress - did not serve
Representative Saxby Chambliss, R-GA - did not serve (yes, the guy who attacked Max Cleland on his 'patriotism')
And on to the media punditry:
George Will, did not serve
Paul Gigot, did not serve
Bill O'Reilly, did not serve
Bill Bennett, Did not serve
Pat Buchanan, did not serve
Rush Limbaugh, did not serve
Michael Savage, did not serve
And some others to round it out:
Bill Kristol, did not serve
Kenneth Starr, did not serve
Antonin Scalia, did not serve
Clarence Thomas, did not serve
Ralph Reed, did not serve
Charlie Daniels, did not serve