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Old 06-24-2008
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Re: Right Wing Media Myth #2: John McCain has Military Experience

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He has very little military leadership experience, and he has no flag-level or army-level military leadership experience, nor experience in responsibility for creating or executing strategy.
You are right, he did not achive flag rank. However, he did retire as a Captain (that is one rank below flag) and did command men in both combat and peacetime. To say he has very little military leadership is totally false.

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I'll stand by the rest of what I said. It's still not relevant whether he was a hero or a fuckup, and this is still no reason to vote for him over Obama (or vice-versa).
I am not voting for him, but I do think that his leadership experience and military knowledge is light years ahead of Obama. That has to count for something in my book.
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