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Popeye, I'll be the first one to stand up and defend Clark's Silver Star and Purple Heart, but the rest of his ornamentation was for being a "pencil pusher", and nothing more.  Now, having said that, there's nothing wrong with being a "pencil pusher", the military NEEDS them, otherwise it simply couldn't function.  Even Eisenhower, a man who did a magnificent job as SACEU during WWII, and later as POTUS, was a "pencil pusher", BUT, I can guaran-damned-tee you that he wouldn't have EVER had the temerity to compare his 42 year military career, including his service as SACEU, to that of any combat Private who served under his command! 


The fact of the matter is that McCain spent well over half of his 27 year military career at the "sharp end of the spear", while Clark spent all but one month of his behind a desk.  Even though Clark was wounded in Vietnam, and then immediately received the finest medical care this country had to offer, he never volunteered to return to his men. McCain, on the other hand, was, while still injured, TORTURED by the NVA and it wasn't until the NVA realized who he was that he received ANY medical care at all, and what he did receive was primitive at best.  Even after having endured this, and even after the NVA realized who he was and offered to repatriate him, he REFUSED to be released unless every man who had been there before him was also released, knowing the NVA would refuse, so he remained with his men, for five and a half YEARS, endured more torture, and still led the resistance movement inside the POW camp knowing that he could be killed for it.  Even after his release, instead of taking a "medical" release, he endured thousands of hours of physical therapy, and was eventually returned to flight status and took over command of one of the training Squadrons at Pensacola NAS, where he turned around an undistinguished unit, and helped earn them their first M.U.C., after which he was assigned as the Naval Liaison to the US Senate, and was instrumental in gaining the Nimitz class carrier over the objections of the Carter administration in 1977, before declining a Rear Admiral promotion and retiring in 1981.


Simply put, anything that Clark has to say about McCain's qualifications to be POTUS, based on his military career is akin to some idiot who never even started for his JV football team talking trash about Bart Starr or "Mean" Joe Green, it's just plain retarded, and so is anyone who buys his line of BS.  Frankly, the fact that Clark would even stoop to something like this only serves to prove that he's nothing but a worthless POS who isn't worthy to lick the dogsh*t off of McCain's boot heel.


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