<p>Senator McCain contemplates young American soldiers fighting and dying in Iraq for the next hundred years. However, if the Vietnam War had lasted a hundred years, he might still be languishing in a North Vietnamese prison. The irony is that John Kerry and many other intrepid American voices spoke out against the nightmare of Vietnam, thus ending the war and mounting loss of American lives. So who is the true patriot, the one who exercises his First Amendment rights and speaks the truth, the POW, or both?</p>
<p>Senator Jim Webb recently stated that when the mothers of Harvard are screaming about their sons and daughters being sent to war, American adventurism will end. Talk is cheap. Now Republican lawmakers aren’t even willing to send U.S. combat veterans to college.</p>