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...a retired member of the National Guard made a comment along the lines that it "is not appropriate for me to comment on Bush's service."
Sort of a "band of brothers" thing.
The ONLY thing Bush has in his favor? He didn't speak out against the military. That's putting it in extreme black-and-white terms, but if you weigh all of the comments made since the election took off, it's a big one.
Kerry served two active tours in Vietnam and was awarded, and he spoke out about war atrocities.
Bush's daddy got him out of the line of fire, and he didn't show up for much of the time, and he kept his mouth shut...probably so that no one would focus on his attendance record.
Kerry spoke out against what was going on in Vietnam. Bush didn't.
It seems that SOME...not ALL...in the military look past the fact "that Bush is making a mockery out of them and all people who served in the military" and focus on two things: one, he kept his mouth shut on Vietnam, and two...even though he has never shown up for a single military funeral...he likes to make nice speeches about how the losses in our military "affect us all," and how we "honor their contribution." Canned, scripted, insincere rhetoric from a man who doesn't care how many sons and daughters he sends into the wood chipper known as "Iraq."
Sorry, this one defies all logic.
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