First off, let me thank you for your service to our country. I owe a debt to all veterans, except those who dishonor themselves by ridiculing veterans like Senator McCain, who have sacrificed immensely for their country.
Want me to keep on? What do you know about aerospace? About elementary particle physics? So should you vote on such issues? Should your congressman? Obviously, the point is that to claim people are incompetent to debate an issue because they've not done it is invalid. And note that I repeatedly underlined the need for info from an eyewitness account.
I read somewhere that he got hit in the right shoulder, right hand, right hip and right leg. Is that like being shot in the guts? In the head? I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. I can't imagine doing anything in that situation other than ordering my men to shoot back. EVERYONE would have done it. Does EVERYONE deserve a silver star? Clark asks if McCain should get a medal for "being shot down". (A distortion.) Does Clark deserve a medal just for getting shot up - other than a purple heart?
I said the citation is TOO SKETCHY ON THE FACTS, and the facts it DOES CITE are insufficient to justify an award for bravery. Therefore, if the citation is your only evidence, YOU HAVE NO PROOF that he deserved the medal.
In other words, you believe something on the skimpiest of evidence. I need something more substantial. I've heard of guys getting wounded and didn't even know it - eg - here's a guy in iraq who was shot in both legs (probably as in Clark's case with an AK-47) and didn't know it:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18637289&BRD=1142&PAG=461&dept_id=567520&rfi=6
You heard of conservatives who said they don't have a right to their opinion? I've never seen any such thing, and would appreciate a citation.
