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To say that W. gave his best for his country during Vietnam is a slap in the face to all those who truly did. To say that W. is anything more than a fortunate son whose father pulled strings (this is proven, by the way, via correspondanc between his father and certain military officers - so it's not paranoia, it's simply proven fact) to get him into the National Guard instead of actually having to fight - that's just naive. To say that Clinton's dishonors to his country excuse Bush's dishonors to his country is absurd. To say that Bush (or Cheney, who once said that he had "other priorities" during Vietnam) can understand the weight of sending American boys into combat better than another president is strange, and totally unfounded. To say that we now have "adults" in the White House is bizarre, because we went from having a self-made man with a genius IQ - Clinton (even if I hated his politics, it was true) - to having a spoiled son, Bush, of average intelligence who has ridden on his father's coattails all his life, a boy who only recently had to be educated on the mere basics of world politics. To call Bush, the boy who has gotten where he is mostly by riding on his father's achievements, an adult, as opposed to the self-made Clinton, that's just nuts. Do you think enyone in the Bush family will ever face the draft? No, because they're rich, privileged children who will get college deferments or a nice slot in the National Guard. It's just like how drug offenders in Florida face LONG prison terms, but Jeb Bush's rich, privileged daughter recently got to avoid prison and merely take a brief stay in a luxury rehab center, FOR THE EXACT SAME OFFENSE. The Bush family are not ordinary Americans who can sympathize with other ordinary, everyday, hardworking Americans - they are privileged, wealthy, powerful, spoiled, and shield their own kin from having to follow the same rules that other people's sons and daughters do. They are no better than the Kennedys: they are a rich, patrician family that does not have to live in the same world as the rest of us, yet is perfectly comfortable telling us that our sons and daughters should give their lives for our country. At least the Kennedys have actually lost a few children to war. Basically, the Bush family is a family with so much money and power that it will never have to follow the rules, and it never has. A modern Bush son will never die fighting for our country. W. is perfectly happy to send other people's sons to their deaths, and to cry sympathetically when they do indeed die, because he knows his OWN family will never have to go - just look at where his own sons and daughters are - it's not fighting for their country, I'll tell you that. It's just like Jeb Bush is happy to support strict drug-offense laws in Florida, sencind other people's sons and daughters to many-year prison terms, because his own daughter will never have to face the consequences. I do not trust these people to protect the men and women of our military.