Instead of all the hand wringing about some slobs wearing medals they aren't entitled to, why doesn't anyone find out EXACTLY what Bush was doing when he should have been on reserve duty?

A guy who was AWOL sending young people off to be killed in a war based on lies is more offensive to me than some loser wearing a few medals he bought on eBay or his his local Army & Navy store!

Criminal ? Yes ! It is against the law. Be assured, not all Vetrans are not heros. I served two tours in Nam and I'm definately not a hero and not a baby killer as stated by Hanoi Jane. This guy should be sent to jail.

He is a fake military hero, but if he speaks out againts the war, and calls on our troops to surrender in Iraq, he will become a REAL democrat and liberal news media hero!

Don't know how old you are Kent but everyone knew the rich guys and only the rich guys went into the guard back in the '60s. That's all in the past and only W will have to worry about it. He worked his way to the White House, and hey, everyone knows only the rich guys get into the White House.

Want to right some wrongs? Elect someone who hasn't been in congress, hasn't been a governor, just a good guy.

OH MR. DEEDS, where are you?

"He is a fake military hero, but if he speaks out againts the war, and calls on our troops to surrender in Iraq, he will become a REAL democrat and liberal news media hero!"

Hey Steve, how's the "last throes" of that insurgency? Have they greeted us with flowers and chocolates yet? Put down the spineless Democrats all you want, but let's not try to whitewash the dishonest and totally incompetent and clueless Republicans and conservatives! Thanks for the quagmire, by the way. Hope they cut your vets benefits to pay for all the new ones coming out of this mess! Bush won't lose a night's sleep if you or they have benefits or not. Semper fool!

The righteous man who kills in self defense want no glory or reconition for his killing.

The Democrat party is in its "last throes" of being an american party, it about 6 months away from being the new "Vichy party" of France in WWII. You unpatriotic and underminning and totally without values democrats keep fighting for defeat at any price, and full benefits for illeagal aliens. My benefits keep going up, despite you useful idiots like Melanie the Jane Fonda wannebe.

I think that he should be jailed a year for each medal he claimed to have been awarded. If not more ! My father died due to exposure from Atomic Testing, he didn't win any awards but he should have.

So Steve, do you think you should do jail time for falsely have "LtCol USMC ret" in your name to give credence to your post?

I think all democrats should due jail time in internment camps (like democrats did with americans during WWII) for falsely claiming to support our troops as they try to bring about defeat at any price. Starting with Roy of course

Remember John Kerry? Three Purple Hearts in three months in Vietnam, but wouldn't released his military records for it to be verified? Plus his discharge Honorable of Dishonorable? Still couldn't be verified because he would not release his records. This David McClanahan has a future in the Democratic Party.

I have read through all of the comments and the one Thomas posted hit home with me. I have an older brother who served in the Navy. I have a younger brother who served with the Marines. He did one tour of duty in Viet Nam and ultimately wound up serving as a body escort, bringing sometimes unrecognizable sons, fathers, etc. back to their families to be laid to rest. He joined the Marines in 1965 and went off to Vietnam at the age of 18 years old. My older brother never left the US...was stationed in San Diego. He believes with all his heart that he served in Vietnam. He has prisoner of war stickers as well as a multitude of other stickers specific to the Vietnam war plastered all over his car. He has medals framed on the wall. He has pictures of what he calls and believes to be his Vietnam brothers. This has upset me for a long time but I have come to the conclusion that he wants to be my "younger brother", the one that served in Vietnam. He doesn't belong in prison. He is flat out mentally not all there. He is 62 yrs old and started imagining/believing all of this about 10 years ago. And, he receives a monthly benefit from the military for post tramatic syndrome. My younger brother does not receive nor has ever asked for any assistance from the military. He has never talked about his experiences. If anyone needs help he does as he is a lonely and angry person who suffers from black outs, etc. I have never challenged my older brother when he talks about his Vietnam buddies, etc. because I know that mentally he is not all there and it would serve no purpose. He is very much involved with Vietnam veterans. I'm not sure what kind of a point I'm trying to get across here other then sometimes there is more to the picture then you can see.
Gwen

It is AMAZING how many of these phonies are out there!
http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies1045.htm
I met one at a party several years ago and he was SO SINCERE --hah! he's listed on the phonies list. TOo bad he can't be prosecuted, too.

Gwen, I think your point is clear - mental illness, effects of war, etc. doesn't only affect those who were there, it can affect their families too. My guess is that your brother's problems stem from some sort of deep sense of guilt for having not gone to Vietnam. I have seen this in lesser degrees living in post 9/11 New York City. I have one friend who was down at Ground Zero and worked the pile as a rescue worker for the first 5 days after the towers fell and I know others who were nearby or even in the towers. Still others who have known as many as severl doezn people who died there. Some are affected a little, some greatly and some have been driven 1/2 mad by the experience. One who was in the towers, got out, then went back in to find a pregnant friend and got her out too is among the least affected by it, IMO. Others I've encountered who have no direct connection other than seeing them burn from a distance are among the most affected. One can never know with such things.

Steve LtCol USMC ret you're crazy if you thinking sending all democrats to prison is the right answer. It's not that democrats don't support the troops, it's that they don't support fighting in Iraq's civil war, which our Commander in chief decided to start in the first place.

I see alot of comments regarding what is going on in Iraq. I dont' know what the solution is, and I hate as much as the next person to hear of more people dying over there. But I believe in my mind, I try to keep it simple by supporting the war by the same ideology I teach my children regarding their rooms.

"If you go in there and make a mess, then it is your responsibility to clean it up."

I don't know how to do it, but I believe that may be what is in their minds. Now, whether it can be cleaned....according to some it can, according to others it can't.

I'm glad Saddam is gone, but man o man..what a mess it is now. Not sure what is right to do...I trust our President to make them hard decisions based on the information he's given.

What else can we do?

Please keep in mind that this guy has already spent about 100 days in the brig for the same offense...he also has an Other Than Honorable Discharge in lieu of court martial...

He needs to be sentenced! This is a chronically ill individual!

"I think all democrats should due jail time in internment camps (like democrats did with americans during WWII)"

Having written nonsense like this, you prove yourself to not only be unAmerican yourself, but also treasonous to what America itself stands for. Thanks for the phoney Marine act, though. The only thing you ever served was "fries with that." I doubt they'd let a looney like you in so much as Civil Air Patrol!

>Check with some of our Massachusetts politicians to see how they choreographed their military careers.

At least some of them are only (if it is true) "embellishing" their service as compared the current crop of chimps who never served.

What irony? An average Texan boasts military service and when unmasked he is hauled before a grand jury. One of the Bush sons does it and the GOP nominates him as a candidate for the presidency. But then, the "combat aviator" and consumate phony, George Jr., has made capons of the US Attorneys in Texas.