It's nice to know that so many of the Pharisees and keyboard jocks at FR are so immaculate of character and pure of conduct that they are comfortable casting first stones at a former warrior. Guess our soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan better keep their noses real clean, or we'll eat them too, eh?
ncountylee, don't let the b@st@rds get you down - some of us still have compassion for our brothers.
Knowing Duke personally (related to my second wife) makes his actions terribly hurtful but his history, like those of McCain, Casey Sheehan and other men (one uncle has a Silver Star and my father has a Bronze Star)can be tarnished but not erased.
Duke Cunningham is a convicted felon and was a war hero.
Yes. If they use their political office to line their own pockets, if they accept bribes for defense contracts, then we'll call them crooks and send them to jail too.
Are crooks not crooks, regardless of what else they've done in their lives? Or are war heroes somehow excused from responsibility for their actions?