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You said previously that you swore an oath to the constitution and not to the President. You then say you served in Vietnam and followed the orders of two idiots who didn't listen to their advisers and didn't get a declaration of war from Congress.
So is this whole thread you being bitter about the Vietnam war (and rightly so) or about Obama making his statement?
I think most of us would appreciate where you're coming from if your fear is that soldiers repeat the mistakes of Vietnam and follow a fool blindly into war rather than us following the Constitution, making legal declarations of War, and only fighting wars that are worth it.
LBJ made great mistakes in Vietnam. Bush made mistakes in Iraq/Afghanistan. Neither of those two ever imagined that the military was theirs to do with as they pleased. They understood the Constitution.
I am not upset that I went to Vietnam. There were mistakes and if LBJ had listened to his military there would not have been 55,000 names on a wall. If Bush had listened Iraq and Afghanistan would been over and successful. Bin Laden would have been dead ten years ago.....not last year.
If Obama's speech writers had just used the phrase "on behalf of Freedom" or "on behalf of the American people" all would have been better.
On the subject of the speech:
I support the proposition that marriage is between one man and one woman.
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