And I am reminded once again that John Kerry served in battle, and George Bush never did. Not only did Bush never see battle, neither did Cheney, Rumsfled, Wolfowitz, Hastert, Frist, DeLay, and on and on. Chickenhawks all!

I think if Bush loses the election, he and all the other members of his administration should immediately join the army and volunteer for battle. Seems fair, doesn't it?

FDR never fought in battle either, but he did a pretty good job leading us in WW2.

President Bush's thanks to the military:

Once back in the United States, veterans found no federal welcome mat laid out for them. By April this year, one in six veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan had filed benefits claims with the Veterans Administration for service-related disabilities. These figures do not include those troops still serving and are twice the number the DOD Web site says suffered "Non-Mortal Wounds" in those conflicts. Today, one-third of those claims, almost 10,000, have yet to be processed. Further, Bush's 2005 budget will cut 540 staff members of the Veterans Benefit Administration, which is the office that handles the claims. The outreach department that lets vets know of available services also was instructed in a 2002 memo by a deputy undersecretary in the Veterans Health Administration to run in silent mode to flush out people who had not made claims out of ignorance.

Even if the war wounded succeed in getting disability pay, in 2003 Bush threatened to veto a bill that allowed veterans to collect disability pay and pensions simultaneously.

In 2003, his administration also tried to cut combat pay from $225 to $150 a month and the family separation allowance from $250 to $100. And most callously of all, the frat brat who ducked a war that killed 48,000 American troops threatened to veto a proposal to double the $6,000 payment to relatives of soldiers killed in action.

Perhaps you can explain why this "great war hero" of your felt it necessary to fake film footage, to claim 3 purple hearts for "wounds" (most people bleed more scratching a mosquito bite", and while you are at it, explain why he won't sign a Form 180. COuld it be he is lying yet again about what sort of a discharge he actually received? All he has to do is sign it, but that would be political suicide, revealing just what sort of traitorous behavior he was involved in as a "war hero". By the way, he served in Viet Nam. What a fraud.