There are Vietnam heroes, many of whom never came back or who had serious problems after they did. Then there are shameful opportunists like Harkin, who merely plays a war hero on tv but wants us to believe he was the real thing.
It makes me ashamed to be from the same state he is a Senator of. By the way, he is a carpet bagger and not from here.
Harkin is a lying, cowardly, liberal-demokkkRAT dirtbag.
There are also plenty of essentially bad people who served honorably in the military, sometimes in combat, and sometimes not. Having served in combat does not buy you blanket immunity from ever being questioned or criticized about anything for the rest of your life.
Harkin, and by silence, Kerry, calls Cheney a "coward" for going by the rules in place from the 1940s-on. Why, oh why doesn't the Bush campaign ask the Kerry one to apologize to the hundreds of thousands of good Americans who went by the rules and obtained student deferments, sometimes running out of deferments and entering the service and sometimes avoiding service. They were not "cowards." Or the hundreds of thousands of good Americans who also went by the rules and served honorably in the National Guard or Reserves. They were neither "cowards" nor "draft dodgers."
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