Why/why not should your vote sway?, Reasons for voting. Options

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For example, the way Kerry prances around bragging about his three purple hearts, when in reality the first was for a piece of shrapnel the size of a rose thorn...

The second one was when he got hit with rice that exploded on a Sampan.

The third was when his buttocks got knocked against the Pilot House of his boat.

And he's proud to have requested purple hearts for such minor injuries, none of which required any loss of duty time nor hospitalization.

I don't think Kerry's (or Bush's for that matter) war record should make someone vote either Democrat/Republican this year, and I don't think either candidate should make it a point to throw it out into the public as if people should vote for that reason.

Any other's you guys can think of?

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woah hold on man. you get purple hearts if you are wounded in the war. im not sure if you know this but he saved one of his crewmans life whle he himself was injured. ANYONE WHO WAS HURT GETS AWARDED PURPLE HEARTS.you do not request to get purple hears.

Actually, you're misinformed, and absolutely wrong. You get purple hearts for serious, enemy-inflicted injuries, I repeat, enemy-inflicted injuries. He got a scratch on the arm by a piece of U.S. shrapnel.

Kerry was denied his first purple heart, and pussyfoot requested it in an attempt, probably, to gain ammunition for his future political career.

The Truth About Kerry's Purple Hearts


Kerry met with his immediate superior officer, Lt.Cmdr. Grant Hibbard, the next morning and requested a Purple Heart for his wound. Hibbard recalls that Kerry had a "minor scratch" on his arm and was holding in his hand what appeared to be a fragment of a U.S. M-79 grenade, the shrapnel that had caused the wound. "They didn't receive enemy fire," Hibbard tells Insight. Since this was an essential requirement for the award, the commander rejected Kerry's request. Hibbard does not remember that Kerry received medical attention of any kind and confirms that no one else on the mission suffered any injuries.

Shortly thereafter, Kerry was transferred to Coastal Division 11 at An Thoi. Apparently, Kerry petitioned to have his Purple Heart request reconsidered. Hibbard remembers getting correspondence from Kerry's new division, asking for his approval. In the hurried process of moving to a new command himself, Hibbard thinks he might have signed off on the award. If so, "it was to my chagrin," Hibbard remembers. Kerry's second commander, Lt.Cmdr. G.M. Elliott, says he has no recollection of such an event ever occurring.

you have a right to vote, and it is a privilage. THAT is why you should vote. excercise your right as a human.

That was random...

o btw i trust someone more who was actually in the war and know wat its like rather than someone who went a-wall for a while year

Once again, your logic is skewed.

According to the Washington Times:

"The White House yesterday released military records that it said demonstrate conclusively that President Bush completed the required drills leading to an honorable discharge from the Texas Air National Guard in 1973."

Bush was honorably discharged, and the gap between his service times is confirmed later in the article as time spent at Harvard...which was a commonplace occurance in the Guard; lapses in duty for college:

"Mr. Bush left the Guard six months early to attend Harvard business school and was honorably discharged in October 1973.
Many pilots resigned from the Guard before completing their enlistment term in those years. President Nixon was withdrawing thousands of troops from Vietnam, delivering a surplus of pilots to the active Air Force and the Air Guard."

yes. someone who follows orders who knwos wat war is about who knows what war is like who is experienced.

You think Bush wasn't experienced? He flew highly dangerous aircraft daily...

i want a president who listens to other peoples adive. who does not go against the united nations. i think if he goes against the united nations there MITE b a reason that the united nations said no. i wish he could think about that first before doing anything. and you missed hte part about him killing innocent 10,000 iraqis when he knows that there is nothing in iraq.

If I could cripple Al-Qaeda without the consent of the United Nations, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Bush gets things done, the U.N. talks about getting things done.