[ASA Vet]

You missed one word from their statement.

the only combat veteran among Bush’s senior aides

Sec of Def Rummy is a Navy Vet.

[sam_paine]

No. I saw that. And I saw the distinction the article tries to make...

Vice President Dick Cheney (who had student and parent deferments during Vietnam) and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (a Navy pilot in the years between Korea and Vietnam) are eager ...to

Their point is a good one, if true. I'd hate to see an operation be undermined by being undermanned.