@bud405n 174981 wrote:
anyone who fought in Nam knows, that anyone who is given the chance to leave the hanoi hilton, and refuses because he wants those who were there longer than him to leave first is a very rare individule.
I thought the reason that he did not leave early was because he did not want to give the enemy the satisfaction of embarrasing his father who was a ‘big wig’ back then?
I watched the event last night and I was surprised by the “Country First” thing and making it seem like the other parties don’t care about or are to stupid to take care of the country they live in.
They complain about funding ‘social’ programs for “the people” but will bend over backwards/frontwards to fund Iraq at a cost of 10 Billion USA DOLLARS a month while they save thier money.
If they are so proud of the job they have done why is Dick Cheney not even mentioned or even invited to the RNC? These are the people that lied to the world about weapons of mass destruction as well as went to war against the best judgement of the UN and other countries.
IMO they DON’T deserve four more days let alone four more years. 
Edit: MCain has done hardly nothing for the vets and if you look at his record you will be quite surprised.