Military experience

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Military experience

Tom Brosz — 12/24/2002 5:31:45 PM (archived)

<Easy to say when you're 5'9", over 50 and never seen combat, yet have been appointed secretary of defense.....

As compared to the stellar military career of Clinton's Secretary of Defense (Cohen was his fourth)?

I think you have to go back to Reagan to find Secretaries of Defense with military experience. It's also worth remembering that our military is SUPPOSED to be under civilian control.

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Rumsfeld warns N. Korea: U.S. can fight two wars at once! - Bowser - 12/23/2002 12:31:22 PM
- Don't worry about North Korea. Clinton and Carter fixed it. - Scott - 12/24/2002 3:03:31 PM
- If you don't use it, you lose it..... - Fighting two wars with one sword - 12/23/2002 5:01:22 PM
  - Military experience - Tom Brosz - 12/24/2002 5:31:45 PM
  - This has for a long time been our standard - Justin Kelly - 12/23/2002 7:48:35 PM
    - Justin, don't waste facts on the sillies. - ebnelson - 12/24/2002 3:39:58 PM
      - Ditto - Tom Brosz - 12/24/2002 5:14:14 PM
        
        I don't think Justin Has to worry about North Korea - Scott - 12/24/2002 5:29:55 PM

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