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> 
> I suppose we are all jerks now and then, but politicians are all jerks
> now and then in public. I don't think jerk sums up John Kerry's strengths
> and weaknesses very well. I do think we would be better off with a
> commander in chief who has been in combat, who knows what troops face in
> combat, whose leadership under fire was respected by those who served
> under him, and who had the courage to come home, after serving honorably
> in the military, to join other veterans in saying, this war did not merit
> the sacrifices our fallen comrades were called upon to make. That would
> make me feel a lot safer.
> 
> Siarlys

So I suppose serving only 4 months out of a normal 12 month period in
vietnam is better than nothing.  I guess it wouldn't matter that it
was only 4 months because of some wound so minor that Kerry had to
appeal to even get the purple heart, when so many would simply put a
band-aid on a wound that small and call it a good day and get on with
things.

Bush is certainly not ignorant to the needs of the military. 
Throughout, there have been clearly defined objectives and fairly
minimal rules of engagement.    It seems to me that if there had not
been a well defined plan throughout, the casualty count might have
actually been considerably worse than that predicted by all the
liberal media and naysayers, rather than *considerably* lower
(somewhere right around 1000 since we have been over there rather than
the liberal media's claims that there would be over 5000 dead
coalition forces within 24 hours of entering).  It seems to me that
there are an aweful lot of people choosing to look at two wars started
and handled well by Bush and completely ignoring the 40+ times the
military was employed by Clinton, including some of the worst run
operations ever - Somalia, Mogadishu, and numerous others.

The reality, however, is that a military record is only a minor piece
of the list of things to consider.  A much larger issue is stance on
the issues - something which Kerry seems to be rather inconsistant on.
 After all, Kerry voted *for* the war in Iraq.  But then, shortly into
the war, switches sides with a bunch of his liberal friends and claims
he never supported such a horrible thing.  Kerry tries to be all
things to everybody and, IMHO, that kind of person cannot be trusted
with anything.

Anyway, enough politics for me for tonight.
Matthew