"Jim" wrote in message
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Jim Rassmann is alive and well living on the Oregon coast because when
it happened to him, his skipper was John Kerry.

You pose the question as if Mr. Kerry had a choice in the matter, which of
course he did not. He did his duty, as was expected of him, and no one can
ever take that away.

The more salient points are twofold, however, if you want to compare Mr.
Kerry to Pres. Bush on that basis. The first is that no comparison is
possible. Nothing in Mr. Kerry's life up to that point could indicate that
he would have reacted with courage under fire. Combat veterans will tell
you that there *are* no valid indicators. More interestingly, nothing in
his life *since* that time has indicated the likelihood of such a reaction,
either. In point of fact, you could make a case for the opposite. The only
facts extant are that Mr. Kerry and Pres. Bush were not in circumstances
that allow comparison.

The second point is that even the attempt to construct such a comparison is
invalid, rendered so by policy and action of the Democrat National Committee
and the respective campaign committees of Mr. Clinton in 1992 and 1996.


I don’t know what George
Bush would have done if he had been skipper that day, but I do know that
on September 11 when he was commander in chief and this nation was under
attack, he was nowhere to be
found.

As to this last offering, it is strictly sixth grade stuff, and betrays a
quaint disingenuousness as to how the Executive Branch, the National
Security Council and Advisor, and the Secret Service interact. My
presumption is that you know better, since you appear literate.