Originally posted by Sansego
The president should not be a military man. That was built in so you would not have a militaristic government. To substitute wisdom and
intelligence for experience is just a bad move, history has already shown this to be a bad deal in the land of capitalistic greed.
Oh really, that's news to me!!
The following is submitted regarding our past Presidents with military experience:
Presidents who served in wars:
George Washington - Commander in Chief of Continental Army during the American Revolution.
James Monroe - served in American Revolution
Andrew Jackson - American Revolution, War of 1812, First Seminole War
William Henry Harrison - Indian wars in the NW territory, War of 1812
John Tyler - War of 1812
Zachary Taylor - War of 1812, Black Hawk, Second Seminole, and Mexican wars
Franklin Pierce - Mexican War
James Buchanan - War of 1812
Abraham Lincoln - Black Hawk War
Andrew Johnson - Civil War
Ulysses Grant - Mexican War, Civil War
Rutherford Hayes - Civil War
James Garfield - Civil War
Chester Arthur - Civil War
Benjamin Harrison - Civil War
William McKinley - Civil War
Theodore Roosevelt - Spanish-American War
Harry Truman - WWI
Dwight Eisenhower - WWII General
John Kennedy - WWII
Lyndon Johnson - WWII
Richard Nixon - WWII
Gerald Ford - WWII
George Bush - WWII
Presidents who were in the military but who saw no action:
James Madison
James Polk
Millard Fillmore
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George W. Bush
Presidents with no military experience:
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
Martin Van Buren
Grover Cleveland
William Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Bill Clinton
12 Presidents with NO military experience and 30 Presidents that have served in the military, of which 24 served in war time. You may want to rethink
that comment.
History proves that the American people have preferred Presidents with military experience, whether you like it or not. Your comment about a built-in
anti-military bias in our government, is pure BS of the first order.