I usually disagree with AVB on politics, but I agree with him on this point, I took an oath to defend my country, and that oath was NOT dependant upon who was at the top of my CoC (Chain of Command, get yer mind outta the gutter!)! I'll be here for another euight years whether I'm working for Bush (I hope) or Kerry (please God, NO!) I served my first eight years under Clinton, I guess I can stand the stench awhile longer if it comes to that, but if the American people elect Kerry, they will get what they deserve! We can only straighten out so many messes, and we still aint caught up on twenty-some-odd years of not following up on threats and convincing our potential enemies that we really wont do anything to avenge an attack. If we back off now, right in the big middle of this, we will be the biggest joke in history. The people Kerry says he wants to regain the respect of were dealing under the table with Iraq, and if Saddam sent a Nuke to Times Square with a return address on it they STILL wouldn't have approved of our invasion, because they were rolling in the money from the illicit trade! Unless and until that little fact gets acknowledged and accepted, any viewpoint taken will be slanted and skewed and any decisions based upon it will be wrong.