[MJM59]

OK, someone needs to put up W's service record so we can compare the two. Seriously, give it up guys Remember how much everyone was up in arms when the folks on the other side of the fence were trying to do the same thing concerning the president's reserve record. If you want to do battle, Bush vs. Kerry, military service is a poor choice of a battleground. My military service record is more impressive than the president's.

[rwfromkansas]

I do not think they put up his record to try to say he didn't do anything, but to have dates recorded.

At least I hope so.

Because, as you say, Bush's record wasn't that impressive either.

[AnAmericanMother]

If you want to do battle, Bush vs. Kerry, military service is a poor choice of a battleground. My military service record is more impressive than the president's.

I disagree, here's why: Kerry has made "Did you know I was in Vietnam?" the centerpiece (and practically the only piece) of his campaign, other than bashing Bush every chance he gets. Even the WSJ has started making fun of the fact that he brings it up constantly - when he was down in LA last week, he compared it to the Mekong Delta.

He's fixated on his service in a creepy sort of way, too -- the home movies (imagine taking your dates home to show them a movie re-enactment of your "combat" adventures!), the medals, pix, etc. on his wall.

His military record is interesting because he himself has touted it. When dates don't add up, when papers are revised repeatedly to say completely different things, when his Fitrep comments are only marginally laudatory (in those days of "grade inflation") and he gets 4 less-than-top marks . . . it looks like he was a jerk and a ****bird who even then was (and still now is) revising and re-revising his record to make himself more politically viable.

Aside from the questionable fitness for CinC of any man so self-absorbed and dishonest, it's just creepy and sick . . .

Compare that to Bush, who was like most folks in those days, he did his time and got out - he hasn't spent the rest of his life reliving (and improving) his "glory days".

[MPJackal]

"OK, someone needs to put up W's service record so we can compare the two. Seriously, give it up guys Remember how much everyone was up in arms when the folks on the other side of the fence were trying to do the same thing concerning the president's reserve record. If you want to do battle, Bush vs. Kerry, military service is a poor choice of a battleground. My military service record is more impressive than the president's."

Really? Put up or shut up.

Kerry is the one making an issue of his service. 4 months, 5 medals (Audie Murphy would be in awe) and an early return home on a dubious claim of a policy no one can find. Then he comes home and while still a Reserve Officer lies before Congress and accuses the U.S. Servicemen of atrocities that never happened. Thus aiding the enemy. That could be called Treason Oh, lets not forget his involvement in a group that advocated assassinating U.S. Senators.

Bush does not go around bragging about his service. Kerry does and I can't figure out why. Three Purple Hearts for Scratches (Read the med report "Applied Bacitracine").

I have 21 years of service and Kerry makes me sick.

You and I seem to really be bumping heads today.

[Gargantua]

"My military service record is more impressive than the president's."

Really? Let's see it, Top Gun. 'Put up or shut up', I think you said...

;-/

[deport]

If you want to do battle, Bush vs. Kerry, military service is a poor choice of a battleground.

---

I don't disagree with that at all..... There are ample records of Kerry as a politican in which to discredit him or his beliefs without the military ever being brought out. But it's Kerry that is touting his record and the democrats that are trashing the President's..... The record that I posted and you are referring to is being promoted on his campaign web site.... That is where it came from......