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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
Because he was in Vietnam. Somebody who was in Vietnam should be president. They got treated like shit when they came back, and it took several acts of congress for them to even get basic stuff. I think I'm pretty tough mentally, but from pictures, books, movies, etc I've seen about Vietnam, I think I would have gone insane. War is Hell, and that war... I don't know what to say about it.
Okay, and now I have a question...how is Bush going to attack Kerry's military service record?  
Kerry=Three Purple Hearts
Bush=awol from the Air Guard.
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Interesting. I know a LOT of Viet Nam Veterans, courtesy of having a much older brother (I'll be 99 years old, and they'll
still call me Baby Sister!). NOT ONE of them came back without some semblence of a drug problem. I praise the Lord that my brother turned his life over to Christ and was delivered of his addictions, but I've been to the funerals of too many men who died with a needle in the arm. These were all upper-middle/middle-middle class men, not your "average druggie". I will be the first to admit that this sample is not perpetuated throughout the country, but this is
my experience.
As for Kerry's one Purple Heart, please remember that his commanding officer was against him receiving it, but they were given fairly liberally at the time.
Between Kerry's flip-flopping on the issues and his history of plaguerism, I'd vote for Nadar first.
ps - this is going to be one ugly election!!