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All of this needs to stop...

Desertion is a serious crime which neither Bush nor Kerry are guilty of...

Technically, if someone is faking injury, fatigue, or any illness to get out of hazardous duty, they are normally charged with malingering...

You can not say that someone who did their time and faced the business end of an AK-47 is a coward....

You can not say that someone who had any type of permission to be away from duty is guilty of desertion...

Desertion is about leaving your post without being properly relieved in a time of war or national emergency with the intent to not return to that duty... These terms are starting to be used a little to loosely...

Where Bush would have had a problem is if his Guard Unit had been called up for active service and deployment to Germany, Vietnam, etc and he had not reported in... "Missing movement" or "dereliction of duty" charges would have most likely been filed....

And everyone knows that there is no such thing as a band-aid wound where automatic weapons are concerned...

Let's talk about the real problems in this country and stop being a smear network... Our national debate needs to make us look like we are going to elect the best candidate... Not the candidate with the most dirt on opposing candidates or the best spin machine...

Military service is not a green light or red light for serving in high office...

Issues, ideas, character, and leaving problems better than when you find them...