1. Powell is a combat veteran. Bush joined the Guard to avoid combat.
2. If Powell were CIC, I don't think we'd be in Iraq at all. I think that going into Iraq was a mistake. Now that we are there, however, I think we are obliged to keep fighting until a suitable government is in power, or the Iraqis prove themselves incapable of sustaining a suitable government.
I’m curious, how do you know why Bush joined the Guard? He could have stayed out of service altogether instead of getting training to fly jets.
Is it your position that Kerry should have been also elected over Bush, because Kerry is a “combat veteran”?
OH, also all great and mighty one. Ask yourself what value your weakness in the face of such simple propaganda serves your fellows still over there and closing in on a real victory.
You give yourself over to those who preach our defeat. It is the willingness to submit to criticisms for the simple sake of criticism and the demand for impossibly perfect outcomes to problems that are by their very definition, complex and loaded with unknowns that those who preach our defeat count on.