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Originally posted by bilmore
If you say you are a lawyer, and I point out and prove that you cheated on the bar exam, am I attacking the process of training and certifying lawyers? Am I denigrating all of those who have passed?
Certainly not. Your point is without merit, and disingenuous.
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Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. We don't know yet, because you haven't addressed it.
My point is that your party has called into question the way military medals for injury and valor were awarded in the Vietnam Era. Surely the fact that several prominent anti-Administration politicians have this rare, odd fact in common can be put aside for the moment, and we can agree that it behooves no one to award these medals too freely. It cheapens the process. These awards' overapplication dilutes the impact for those truly deserving, like the way everyone at a bank is a "Vice President" or Bush is a "conservative." Some of our brave fighting men and women left behind
Republican limbs and lives in Vietnam, and it is they who are dishonored by Kerry's Cracker Jack box medals. True, you're not necessarily calling the Purple Heart process into question by attacking John Kerry. I am.
The past month has shown that it is exceedingly difficult to say with certainty which of the conflicting records and witnesses is telling the truth after the passage of 30 years. Shouldn't we be taking steps to assure that there are no social climbers and other opportunists who volunteered for Iraq and received superficial wounds there merely to build a future political career --- in either party? Does it concern no one that we haven't been shown how the American military has acted to ensure there are no more John Kerrys? Maybe if we could say Yale no longer has NROTC, we could proudly say to the people of 2034 that we did our best.
If John Kerry's Purple Hearts dishonor those who truly sacrificed, I want assurance that those 7,000 Gulf War II vets don't get a free ride to the Senate, ketchup heirdom, and the White House. Capiche?
