Thread: Should candidates running for President have military experience?
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Old 12-02-2007, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by IrishBlonde View Post
Having military expertise is an added bonus, but not a necessity. To run for president, one has to be 35 years old. That would mean that the only candidates with military experience would have fought in Vietnam, or MAYBE in the First Gulf War. The war we are fighting today is a different type of war, it's a war against insurgents and terrorists, not armed forces in uniform. The only candidate who has served is Sen. John McCain.
I consider being in the military to be military experience, whether you serve during wartime or not. Obviously, war experience is different from "just" military experience.