[wtc911]

I never said it was automatic, I said it was commonly known. The salient point here is that you don't get the PH for loading trucks two thousand miles away as was the case with the BS in the Granada deal. There's only one way to get it, and there's only one way to get it three times.

No matter how you twist it for political reasons, he was there, he was in combat, he got hit three times. Even a scumbag can do the right thing on occasion. Find something real to go after him with, not this. It smacks of desperation politics. I'm sure you can do better.

[kidd]

Find something real to go after him with, not this. It smacks of desperation politics. I'm sure you can do better.

I'm in agreement.

I would also like to point out that the attempts by the democrats to smear Bush with his record of service is an example of desperation politics. Tit-for-tat on Kerry is only warrented to the point that it disarms the democrat attack on Bush's record of service.

[amigatec]

I never said it was automatic, I said it was commonly known. The salient point here is that you don't get the PH for loading trucks two thousand miles away as was the case with the BS in the Granada deal. There's only one way to get it, and there's only one way to get it three times.

I know of one man that got his because he was drunk and fell into a foxfole. To this day he won't wear it.

Another friend of mine told me the most decorated man in his company was the COMPANY CLERK!!!

Every month a box of metals would arrive and there were told to 'hand them out'.