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The last combat vet the Republicans really respected was William McKinley
Bob Dole doesn't count, the Republicans figured 1996 was going to be Bill Clinton's no matter what they did. Veterans, especially veterans of a nasty little colonial war against the general population of a small country like Vietnam or Iraq, now are only
valued if they can control the levers of power in the VFW or American Legion. The real heroes for today's Republicans are those who proved to have that genial selfishness, the entepreneurial initiative to avoid serving in those nasty scenes.
To them a Jim Webb or John Kerry are at best useful idiots. The pro-war combat avoider is their hero and model. George W Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, Romney, Giuliani and O'Reilly, to name a few.