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How U.S. military veterans compare with non-veterans 
in their political affiliation and their political ideology:

POLITICAL AFFILIATION

                   Veterans   Non-veterans

Republican            47%         44%
Democrat              42%         48%
Independent           11%          8%

POLITICAL IDEOLOGY

Conservative          43%         37%
Moderate              43%         40%
Liberal               13%         23%

Source: USA TODAY analysis of a sample of 595
veterans and 2,411 non-veterans. The samples 
are based on three USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup polls:  
Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2003; May 19-21, 2003; and
Feb. 16-17, 2004.   The veterans sample has a
margin of error of +/-4 percentage points.  
The non-veterans sample has a margin of error of
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usatoday.com

Waiting patiently in the weeds for LiveShot who fancies himself as a strong finisher.........

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SHOULD A MAN WHO FALSELY ACCUSED AMERICAN TROOPS OF ATROCITIES SERVE AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF?

Sure              940      5.70%

No              1,562      9.47%

Hell, no       13,986     84.83%

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I would like to talk on behalf of all those 
veterans and say that several months ago in 
Detroit we had an investigation at which 
over 150 honorably discharged, and many
very highly decorated, veterans testified 
to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia.
These were not isolated incidents but crimes
committed on a day-to-day basis with the full
awareness of officers at all levels of 
command. It is impossible to describe to you
exactly what did happen in Detroit - the 
emotions in the room and the feelings of the 
men who were reliving their experiences in 
Vietnam. They relived the absolute horror of 
what this country, in a sense, made them do. 

They told stories that at times they had 
personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads,
taped wires from portable telephones to human 
genitals and turned up the power, cut off 
limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at 
civilians, razed villages in fashion 
reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and 
dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and 
generally ravaged the countryside of South 
Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war 
and the normal and very particular ravaging 
which is done by the applied bombing power of 
this country.

We call this investigation the Winter Soldier Investigation. 

-- John Kerry, testifying before the Senate 
Committee on Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971

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