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Thank you Grandpa Cory, you just made my point for me. You are right I dont know your son so I should not question his decisions because I am not privy to what went into making that decision. But yet Sgt. Stevens made hers, so I believe that only people that know her should be allowed to question the validity of the decision.

And as for the "shoot first and don't ask questions" issue. If you are a good shot there will be nobody to ask the questions of. And well, Kucinich? He knows how to pick a winner there!

Another clever recruiting campaign. Female recruitment rate is down...let's show a pretty woman in a contest to be pretty. It's not enough that she's an accomplised medical worker.

Those who aren't making comments on the article but rather each other are pathetic, you have more logical fallacy pouring of your mouths then a candidate at the presidential debate.

Grandpa Cory you are pathetic, as is your son! Becasue he was taught a certain catch phrase that was used for training you think this is a example of why he turned tail? Would he have gone to war if they taught him to count pretty little ponies or unicorns? Face it, he joined for "college money" and when the call came him to put up or shut up, well I would lay money that he voted for John Kerry. Repeatedly!
We all joined for different reasons, but the fact that you and so many like you think that attacking Sgt. Stevens decision because it differs from what your manual said the right decision should be, or that you feel it goes against what you think the statisitics say the outcome should be, well you aare just one pathetic person.
The fact that she had a positive experience inthe military, and that she was admired by her comrades just gauls you to no end because it makes you question what you were told at the kool-aid lectures.

And I was pulling for her to win jut because of the military ties but now I will have to at least tune it becasue I know if the ratings are high enough it will tweek the ever loving crap out of people like you, gingerz, and mike201057!

You are all pathetic you sound like politicians with the amount of logical fallacy you've included in your comments.

Hooah, my husband joined the Army in August, taking advantage of the extended age eligibility and is now in his Advanced Individual Training. After AIT and some OJT, he'll be deployed to the Middle East. Freedom isn't free ya'll and I'm so proud of him and his "battle buddies". There were 20 others in his boot camp mid-30's or older. Recently a 39 year old father of a soldier who died in Iraq enlisted to "complete his son's mission. You go girl...if America could vote for the winner, Sgt. Stevens should be shoo in. Pray for our troops.

who cares? is this really important???
have a drink of koolaid, take another Prozac and sit back and watch the beauty pageant..

Responding to: "Well, Stan, let's try not to forget about the people who flew two planes into the world trade center towers, a plane into the pentagon, and a plane into a field in PA. I'd call that an attack"

Well yes, this was an attack, but it this is really about the only one since 1812 (Cuban missles maybe?) and it happened DESPITE the existence of our enormous, high-powered military. And the military's response (as directed by civilians, granted) was to go off and attack another country - miles away, that had nothing to do with the attack!

I do not doubt the courage of most men and women in uniform but I do think we need to get away from the knee-jerk support of anything military that has become expected in the post 9/11 era. Not EVERYTHING the military does is necessarily "defending our freedoms." You could argue that military action in Iraq has made the world less safe and American less free (certainly mpore fearful and paranoid). People seem to have this assumption that if we didnt have the military - or even if we had less of a military - our "freedoms" (usually undefined) would be taken away overnight by some jackbooted invaders. I think this is unlikely. I also think journalists, teachers and many others do as much to protect our freedoms as the military. And in my experience, the same people who support the military are the same ones who wish to deny freedoms to people who do not fit their white picket fence model of a real 'Mercan (gay marriage etc.)

Nothng against the people who serve in the military, but many people are sick of the military-worshipping culure that has taken hold recently.