Hero is only real choice

One candidate served in the Navy as a field grade officer, flew 23 combat missions and acquitted himself heroically while being tortured in a communist POW camp for more than five years.

He spent decades in the House of Representatives and the Senate, currently serving as the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services.

Lastly, he pushed for and supported the current military surge in Iraq, which is proving critical to our success.

The other candidate has no military service and is barely in his first term in the Senate. He has long recommended quitting our nation’s effort to defeat a mortal enemy in Iraq and thereby doom a fledgling democracy.

Is there really a choice?

Jesse R. Hurt
Orange County