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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sweetx305 you are smart and im glad to see thatthere is finally somone else wh does not agree with bushes doings. not that i can see how anyone would

That's because you're close-minded, and too caught up listening to yourself talk to read through my credible sources. Like most of my liberal friends.

At least I have the courtesy and patience to consider the opposition's argument, rather than repeat myself like a broken record.

And sweetx305...

If Kerry did not DESERVE his purple hearts, then why did they give it to him??? think about it man...

I already posted an article about this -- but yet again, no one has the brain capacity to thumb through evidence.

Insight Magazine -- Interview: Lt. Cmdr Grant Hibbard

Since you probably won't take the time to click the link, here:

But 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.

Cut, and dry.