On 14/04/2013 1:44 PM, Cheri wrote:

>> Ever notice that the major instigators of recent wars have been the
>> yellow striped chicken hawks?
>
> We saw how the draft went in Vietnam. A lot of those people who didn't
> fight then are making war decisions in their later years that's for sure.
>
It's the political machine. You had a guy who volunteered and who was
cited for bravery and was wounded three times (admittedly minor wounds)
and the political opponents try to trash his military record, while
ignoring the fact that their candidate managed to dodge combat by using
strings to get into a special National Guard unit that would never see
Nam. Then their next guy is touted as a war hero???? They must have
changed the criteria for war heroes to include someone who gets shot
down and then confesses to war crimes. I may have it backward, but I
would think that they guy who got cited for bravery in combat would be
more of a hero than him.