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Democrat marine who just lost in the Ohio special election.

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Hackett is not as much of a hero as the other people who have served in Iraq?

Don't be a hypocrite.

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His phoniness is less about what he did in Iraq than what he campaigned about. He minimized his liberal lawyering stateside and instead left the impression that he was a career marine. That is why he is a phony. (Just like John Kerry pretended that he never turned his back on his former colleagues once he returned to the States).

It is not their service that is phony, it is their presentation of their entire resume that is phonied up to misrepresent who they really are.

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Well that makes Bush the supreme phony, doesn't it? A man who was for the Vietnam war but used family connections to get out of it. Who didn't have the stones to face real danger in support of his convictions, but let others do it for him. But who then, when he has power, sends others off to fight another war (at no danger to himself). And has the gall to strut around in a uniform like Patton while on an aircraft carrier safely floating a few miles off the California coast, and in response to increasing insurgent violence shows all his fake machismo by saying: "Bring it on!" Taunting an enemy into increased violence knowing they can't reach his cowardly ass.

Yeah, W is a real American hero.

Frank