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There's nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don't go to war so carelessly.

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

Bush is no conservative.

One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

I believe that being conservative means you try to get in to the middle of the fight and try to solve the problem.

Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.