"Kevin Brooks" wrote...

A darned lot more than "some".

And a darn lot less than 'all'. In some cases... the uses of
unobserved harassmment and interdiction fires in populated areas, for
example... he's probably right, as well. take a look at Protocol 1
Additional to the Geneva Conventions, 1977, Article 57.

Can you name any defense programs he actually *supported*?

Sure, that's easy. Go to
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/leg...sers/votes.htm
and actually look at his voting record. It's fairly straightforward --
I just searched for 'defense' and then looked at the voting records.
You'll see a variety of (a) defense appropriation bills and (b)
specific programme appropriation bills that he voted for.

Answer the question!

I think that I did. He got his teeth done: what else did he do? From
what people are saying about Guard service at that time, it appears to
have been quite possible to be on duty and not actually be doing very
much of anything at all... especially if one was the son of a senator.
And teh record dates involved were, apparently, the dates that he
drilled.

Compared to Kerry, he *is* a paragon of patriotism.

How so? Kerry asks questions, he doesn't? Kerry expressed doubts about
American actions, he didn't? What makes George II a patriot, but not
John Kerry?

So you say...no surpise in your choice of descriptive terms, given your
bent.

You betcha. I don't make the assumption that every time the USA goes
to war it's Saving the World. There were probably 1.5 million - 2
million people killed in that war, which is considerably out of
proportion to anything that it accomplished.

they *should* have ordered his sorry butt back to active
duty and told him that, IAW the laws of warfare and the UCMJ, he had to
provide specifics in regards to his allegations of war crimes so that we
could investigate an prosecute any actual criminals

Nah, unlikely at that point. After all, what if he'd done so?

You and I have differing views of what makes someone "admirable". I find the
Army aviators who landed at My Lai and placed themselves in between the
perpetrators and some of the soon-to-be victims as being "admirable"...

Actually, I find that admirable as well. You don't like what Kerry
said after a war that, AFAIK, he was in and you (and I) weren't? Fine,
but that's hardly a reason to condemn him, in my book. He'd decided
that he'd participated in a stupid and costly war, and he spoke up
about it... using the language of a young man, maybe, but what he said
was very far from being horse manure. If anything, I think that the
pointlessness of that war backs up a lot of hwat he said.

No, my attacks would be conducted against Kerry if he was with *any* party.

(Shrug) If you say so. Usenet is never the measure of anyone, but your
posts look as reliably right-wing as mine do leftie.

Scott