[navyblue]

"To apply Patton's test on the writer's qualification, would someone please post the names of those among the Washington war advocates who themselves or have sons or daughters in 'real fighting' units?"

Maybe I misunderstood you but here's three! Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and George H Bush. I think they were in "real fighting units."

[oyez]

Nixon and Johnson were REMF? Right?

About Patton's talk, There is no poltiical correctness in foxholes.

[nofriendofbills]

Think he's talking about the pundit class, Bill Kristol et al, none of whom have worn a uniforn since Cub Scouts, yet never met a war they did't like...so long as they and their kids aren't in it.

[ex-snook]

"Maybe I misunderstood you but here's three! Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and George H Bush. I think they were in "real fighting units." "

And so they were but their like is not around. I was addressing the present pundits and leaders in the policial area who are leading the current charge for war and wonder how many of them, or their children, were in 'real fighting units'. Aside from Powell, I am tapped out. Gore was a REMF. I don't know Sen Kerry's position on bombing the world. McCain is still brain-washed so I can't count him.