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Harry Krause wrote:
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Editorial: Bush creates illusion of progress in Iraq

What I loved about the speech is that Bush said that we will be
victorious! How many times will we have victory in Iraq? We had victory
in the beginning (remember "Mission Accomplished"). Then, when the
Iraqis got their constitution in order, Bush declared again that we had
won in Iraq. Now, he's telling the naval cadets that we'll have victory
in Iraq!!!!

They aren't "naval cadets", see below.

Did you notice that when Bush told the cadets that they were heroes
because they put on a military uniform during a war, that there were
hardly any applause? Those men and women probably didn't think an idiot
could be elected twice!!

I do believe that they have cadets at the US Military Academy and the US Air
Force Academy but, at the US Naval Academy the what you would call students
are actually Midshipmen. Midshipmen is a rank and not a title.

Most people in the military don't want praise or adulation for their
unselfish service.