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i'm just confused why this is all of the sudden a positive aspect of kerry's campaign. since when did democrats push military service as a positive factor in political leadership?
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Honest answer? Maybe since Republicans started calling us Anti-american and using military service as an issue to declare democrats unfit for office.
And it is doubly frustrating, the attacks when you consider the leaders of the republican and democratic parties. By and large the democrats current leadership have a much more complete and distinguished career of military service, yet they unceasingly get clubbed with the military and get attacked on our supposed lack of patriotism. I think Kerry is attempting to fight back against that.
A little bit of backing up my statements.
Who Served
The Chickenhawk Brigade
It is REALLY amusing seeing some of the excuses Republicans used for avoiding Nam.
Now I would also like to say that I know there are plenty of republicans, and prominent ones at that who served faithfully in the military. And that site does recognize the most prominent among them. And I know plenty of democrats avoided the draft as well. I think this info is important because it is a shield we can use to show that the Republicans enjoy no high ground, as they claim, over our pride of country and faithfulness to America.