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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (416888)	6/20/2003 12:22:56 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

you spam all over these threads kissing up Kerry, and accusing all of name calling...yet that is all you do....grow up and go do something besides posting stupidity all day. Here is something for your hero. Kerry attempts to dismiss criticism on the grounds that he is a decorated Vietnam War veteran. No one disputes that his service record was admirable, but it does not inoculate him against all criticism of everything he does for the remainder of his time in public life. He does not have carte blanche to make ill-advised comments - or take imprudent policy positions - without anyone calling him on it. Kerry was willing to support Bill Clinton against World War II heroes George Bush [41] and Bob Dole. When Clinton intervened militarily in Haiti and Kosovo, among other places, Kerry strongly supported him despite his lack of military service. If a president who never served can commit our troops to battle, what is wrong with a Republican congressman who never served criticizing a public statement by the senator? Kerry's - possibly unintentional - insinuation that he has specially "earned the right" to express his views does not sit well with me. This is a right we all posses as Americans. We should be eternally grateful to the brave men and women who have made sacrifices the rest of us did not have to make in order to protect our rights, but those rights do not derive from any government and no man is in a position to judge whether we have "earned" them. They are inalienable and the Declaration of Independence clearly specifies our Creator as their source.