The whole deal about Kerry is that he received medals to get out of war early. The three Purple Hearts he received (notice how I don't use the words earned or deserved) were for superficial wounds that the average joe (or sailor) would have never seen a doc for. He knew that if you received three PH medals that you are sent home. Then he tossed them and others for what ever reason, which I totally disagree with. People die for some of these medals and to me that is an affront to those men and women. You are telling them and their families that their sacrifices were for nothing. So yes, his service was openly disrespected, and rightly so. McCain did not try to get out of the war early. He did his time, and then some, so he deserves no disrespect for his military service, only respect and admiration.
And FWIW, I think that if you are going to be the CINC for the US Military, you should have some sort of military experience, whether it is active, guard or reserves. You shouldn't hire a CEO for a pharmaceutical company who does not know anything about drugs should you? Point is, you should have experience in the leadership role you want to assume. So since McCain has experience in the military (more than the time he was a POW, he remained on active duty many years afterwards, and even turned down an Admiral billet to pursue his political career), and experience in the political world, that is enough for me to want to vote for him over Obama. Even if there was any way that we knew 100% that Obama could successfully surrender in Iraq shortly after being elected, thus bringing us all home sooner, I would still vote for McCain, even if that means more deployments for me. I prefer experience over this so called "change". But that is just my opinion Bruce denstar wrote: > > > My point about Kerry was that his service WAS disrespected, openly (he > served, medal tossing or no- but that medal tossing is emotional, I > reckon), and I haven't seen that kind of disrespect towards McCain-- > it would be crazy, but anyways -- it just seems like people are > illustrating, before our eyes, how this stuff goes down. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266746 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
