Le Sabot Post-Moderne

If there's anything that raises my ire than stuff like this, I can't begin to tell you what it is. I have never really liked John Kerry much to begin with, but this tops it.

My father served in the United States Air Force for 26 years, and there were 3 or 4 times that I know of that he came within a hair's breadth of never returning home to my mother. When people use positions of power and authority to speak out against the US in a way that someone else without those connections can not, it's unpleasant enough. To me, however, using the status of a military veteran to achieve those same ends is simply reprehensible. I hold Wesley Clark in utter contempt for this same thing. His views and values are completely and totally out of sync, at least for the majority of the military members I have served with and have met through my father's service.

Chris-

Good points.

The officers who've served under Clark have very little good to say about him.

As for Kerry, he's constantly waving the bloody shirt. Even if he hadn't been a traitorous sleaze upon his return, his constant preening would be distasteful enough. G Bush I was a WWII fighter pilot and hero, but didn't feel the need to trumpet the fact every 5 seconds.