Kerry absolutely implied that our military is stupid. That is what this entire uproar is about and is the reason he has since apologized. "make an effort to be smart...If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq." Translation - if you're not smart you join the military and go to Iraq.

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military combatants has always been made up primarily of people of limited educational and professional opportunities.

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How can you possibly make this sweeping generalization and know it to be true? Limited educational and professional opportunities? Limited how? One day they can't find job in the newspaper or take some classes at the local Com.College so out of desperation they decide to join the military as a means of last resort. More Arrogance William. You paint the military as though its full of the hopeless, hapless, dregs of society that have no other option than to join. That sounds more like the streets of LA than the military.

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the roster of high ranking officers contains a disproportionately high number of USMA, USNA, and USAFA grads.

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No shit dumbass, that's exactly what the military academies are designed for. They are the ones with the most training and experience. They are the best of the best, the leaders.

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Let's go down the list of casualties and find out how many of those kids had advanced degrees in engineering, but decided to leave their lucrative careers in order to "defend freedom" in Iraq.

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Go ahead and do it. I bet you'd be surprised and might just actually upset your arrogant attitude towards our military. All those people that serve in the military reserves have jobs you know and you can bet they aren't the unmotivated out of work welfare slobs you seem to think they are.