Are Purple Heart Medals just a big joke?  Republicans think so.?
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It doesn't have anything to do with republicans per se, but it has to do with the campaign strategy that Karl Rove (Bush's primary advisor) used to make Kerry's meritorious service look otherwise.\n\nMedals like the Purple Heart and Medal of Honor will always be medals of incredible value regardless of what politicians say or think.  You seem to be getting information from the wrong source because I have Soldiers under me in my company who were authorized to wear the purple heart, but chose not to because they weren't injured enough...even though these individuals have scars and problems as a result of that enemy action.\n\nSo almost always, if a person is wearing a purple heart they most likely earned it.  You'd don't know what they went through to get it (could be a scratch, but most likely serious injuries, concussions from the sheer power of the shockwaves striking the vehicles from an IED, etc...\n\nDON'T EVER think that the purple heart is a joke.  Those who earned one in the wars before us and even today deserved them.  They've went into a warzone and if they have a scratch or a leg missing that's still a hell of a lot more than the rest of the population back in the United States, so give them the respect they deserve rather than worry about political jargon that is pushing some agenda and maybe destroying the merit that so many other Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, and Sailors most certainly deserve.\n\nMy dad was a purple heart recipient.  He was blown up by a mortar and a rocket in Vietnam.  He lost a finger and had many shrapnel injuries but was apprehensive to wear it because he'd seen other people get far worse injuries.  As far as I'm concerned, being a Soldier in Iraq myself, my dad, the men he's served with that were injured, the Soldiers here who've been injured multiple times (but still roll outside the wire anyway) deserve all the respect in the world.  One man, or a few politicians, won't diminish the honor of these men.
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He hasn't insulted the military. He said that Bush is uneducated over several sentences. If you would stop taking the one line out of context that he was talking about Bush when he said that, you would understand.\n\nIn truth you should be mad at the republicans for displaying a huge amount of idiocy if not lying on the subject.
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Of course not. The Republicans bank on these types of people to gain votes primarily, they don't care if your starving. I am sure 9 months ago you watched the outcome of Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf Coasts treatment by these people. The Red Cross(Catholics) showed up, but no Bible belt. HUH!!! Christan's HUH!!!
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Nothing but the braging rights and some VA treatment but believe me you don't want that kind of treatment ....lol....\nThey always trying to cut on somebody\nFYI I am a vet not purple heart but I do live in Texas and they don't do squat for me except the VA.....Although the VFW will keep you drunk with free beer...
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Their arguments lack objectivity and facts.\n\nWhat's so special about life?  The way republicans treat life out of the womb, and care about people who are hungry and needy, or children with no homes or medical care...I'd say they don't think too much about life.\n\nYou just need to be devoid of all logic, have a simple narrow world model where no actions have any secondary consequences, be willing to think like a total hypocrite, and then it all makes perfect sense.
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In the event this allegation is true, and it probably makes sense that it is, it is officers who make the decision on who gets what.  It stands to reason that they take care of their own, first.  It seems to me the most hazordous job in the Marine Corps is that of a Lance Corporal.  Look at any cauality list, the majority hold that rank.  On that basis, you would think the majority of medals for valor would go to enlisted men, especially those who suffer the most, Lance Corporals. There is politics everywhere!
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Absolutely YES. I come from a Republican Family and I am at odds with many. They put "Being a Republican" ahead of logical thinking. How can a thinking person support George Bush. I am a Republican but this man is a walking disaster. He has done ,NOT one thing to improve this country. I think it is all to make his daddy richer and happier. Iraq was and is a disaster. The man lied and keeps on lying about the war. The man on the street knows better how the war is going. Enlisted people are going to jail because they are being held responsible for what officers told them to do and then denied giving the orders.Any one who has been in combat knows that enlisted men and women do only what they are told. The marines involved in the killing of civilians were told by HIGH UP the chain of command to do whatever they did. Officers will not be sacrificed. Enlisted "Grunts " will. My family believes the propaganda from the White House- I do not.
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Come on...We both know it wasn't ever even meant to be a joke.  You are far too smart to believe otherwise.\n\nBut to answer your question,  The GOP should capitalize on Kerry's inability to admit when he makes an err.
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It is an award for shedding blood for the greatest country on God's green Earth.  Those who receive it are automatically listed in the Order of the Purple Heart. \n\nALL VETERANS not just those  awarded the medal are entitled to treatment  in VA hospitals. \n\n The medal itself is traced back to the Revolutionary War when General Washington allowed wounded soldiers to adorn their uniforms with a purple ribbon to signify their sacrifice.  \n\nTo equate service and sacrifice to a political loss is a disservice to all who have worn the uniform.
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I don't speak for the Dems about Iraq.  But, there are NO other voices in D.C. for ideas to flourish.  We are being ruled by a one party system.  Iraq has become a quagmire.  The costs in bodies and dollars are burdening the American citizens.  Why shouldn't the republicans be held to account?  At least for our soldiers that are giving there lives for a cause based on lies.  The republicans see it as an acceptable cost.
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Most Americans will see this "joke" for what it is... an expression of his lack of respect for the American military. If they have have any sense they will steer clear of candidates that will weaken and destroy America, which not always, but in most cases is the Democrat party.
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Hmm..I am a liberal, yet I have never killed a baby, ran from a fight or saved a seal.  Liberals are not anti military, the idea that they are is ludacris.  In the last two elections we put forth decorated war veterans, General Wesley Clark a long time serviceman is a Democrat.  Conservatives wlected a veritable draft dodger president, and lied and said that a Vietnam vet who lost both legs and arm fighting for his country(former Georgia senator Max Cleeland) supported terroists, just to win his senate seat.  Liberals believe in fighting the good fight, not the pointless one that needlessly puts brave men and women in harms way.  As for hugging trees, those who look at the scientific data in terms of health effects and global warming and don't put the environment at the forefront are simply put, foolish.
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Much as I appreciate the sentiment it is really not practical.\n\nWhen you put your cross on the paper (or whatever system you use) that is when you are deciding who makes the big calls - this is the essence of democracy.  The impliction is that you would need a leader and a military leader - unless the suggestion that every leader must be ex military.\n\nNotwithstanding this, I wish folks would distinguish between the politicians and the soldiers when complaining about war and how/why it is fought.\n\nPeace (hopefully) out
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Berry is funny!!! As for the statement, not true because party affiliation has noting to do with individual "niceness"!!!
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I'm a Republican... The majority of the Democrats are morally wrong, and are all for that stuff....  Its almost like a sickness... They whine and stomp their feet about our soldiers being over in Iraq, fighting for our Country, and then they whine and stomp their feet for gay rights, etc.....Does that make sense..... Scary bunch of people, huh...
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i think red poppies glorify war, and just glorifying it every damn year encourages folk to think that warmongering is good - which it's not. And I don't see why we still are coughing up to fund these people who made the decision to sign up for the forces in the first place. You know the score when you join up - don't expect everyone else to pick up the pieces...\n\nOh, and I make my own white poppy - it's called recycling ;-)
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Okay to Wanda with the pic of a cat drinking from a toilet...Democrats are not winning next week.  I hate to break your heart.  John Kerry knew exactly what he was saying when he made his "mistake".  He accidently on purpose spoke his mind.  Why is it that when Republicans make a mistake they never live it down.  Let a Democrat make a mistake and you get all these whiny ass excuses as to why they messed up.  Give it up!  Your party has no class and John Kerry is the ambassador of idiocy!  How dare anyone put down a soldier!!!!!!  They are fighting for your right to sit back and trash them right now.  Just one one American soldier has more intellect than John Scarry!  John Kerry was and still is a coward.  Oh sure he served in the military, but then tried to give back the Purple Heart he was given.  Smack America in the face, and he's still doing it today!!!  Wake up people!