@Lifeofthemind. I’m not aware of what he said ’bout sons in Iraq. Whatever it was, I don’t doubt your characterization that it could have been “better”. But I doubt that that’s relevant. I don’t want to judge fathers on the basis of what their sons do, or don’t do. Sons are not robots. We are free individuals, answerable to, and responsible for, ourselves. Fathers should stand by their sons. But fathers should not have to answer, politically, for their sons. The sons are not running for office. Let them be.
Judge the father, the politician, on what he is and has done.