The first rule of command
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The first rule of command
| Fri, 08-27-2004 - 5:00pm |
I dreamed about my father last night. Dad's been dead almost thirty years, so I don't dream about him much, but I did last night. Dad was a Master Sargeant in the Air Force. He, for some of his time in, he trained young airman in Air Force Boot Camp.
One night, when we were talking about his time in the Air Force and some of the things he did to train young men, he told me, "You know what the first rule of command is? Never ask your men to do something you wouldn't do yourself."
Let's forget slamming Bush. Let's assume he did serve his time in the Guard honorably. But, as the Commander in Chief, he never spent at tour overseas, never when into a combat zone, was never shot at, never shot back, and never killed a man. Regardless of the medal argument, Kerry has done all of the above.
If the first rule of command is, "Never ask your men to do something you wouldn't do yourself." like Dad said, who has the better right to ask, Bush or Kerry?

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<<"If the first rule of command is, "Never ask your men to do something you wouldn't do yourself." like Dad said, who has the better right to ask, Bush or Kerry?">>......Where and when did
< Where and when did Bush ever say that he wouldn't do what he is asking his men to do?>
How can Kerry "prove it"?
Don't know about you, but I for
Senator John Kerry tried to defer his military service for a year, according to a newly rediscovered article in a Harvard University newspaper.
He wrote to his local recruitment board seeking permission to spend a further 12 months studying in Paris, after completing his degree course at Yale University in the mid-1960s.
The revelation appears to undercut Sen Kerry's carefully-cultivated image as a man who willingly served his country in a dangerous war - in supposed contrast to President Bush, who served in the Texas National Guard.
The Harvard Crimson newspaper followed a youthful Mr. Kerry in Boston as he campaigned for Congress for the first time in 1970. In the course of a lengthy article, "John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress", published on February 18, the paper reported: "When he approached his draft board for permission to study for a year in Paris, the draft board refused and Kerry decided to enlist in the Navy."
Samuel Goldhaber, the article's author who is now a cardiologist attached to the Harvard School of Medicine, spent 11 hours trailing Mr. Kerry and still remembers that the subject of the Paris deferment came up during long conversations about Vietnam.
"I stand by my story," he told The Telegraph. "It was a long time ago, and I was 19 at the time, so it is hard to remember every detail. But I do know this: at no point did Kerry contact either me or the Crimson to dispute anything I had written."
The truth turned upside down. Black is white & white is black. Ever read "Brave New World"?
No, Bush didn't have to ask for a deferment, instead he got a guaranteed safe job here at home. Kerry signed up TWICE.
Find some other way to try & prop up your president.
< Kerry only served because he was turned down for deferment. President Bush didn't ask for a deferment.
Senator John Kerry tried to defer his military service for a year, according to a newly rediscovered article in a Harvard University newspaper.
He wrote to his local recruitment board seeking permission to spend a further 12 months studying in Paris, after completing his degree course at Yale University in the mid-1960s.
The revelation appears to undercut Sen Kerry's carefully-cultivated image as a man who willingly served his country in a dangerous war - in supposed contrast to President Bush, who served in the Texas National Guard. >
Now, how much more proof do you need that the current administration is asking our troops to do things they themselves were not willing to do?
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