Sowers campaign releases video highlighting candidate's military experiences

Larry Bill is another vet running for this job. Check out his site as well: www.larrybill.com

I applaud Sowers' campaign for highlighting how few veterans there are in Congress...we need more fighting men and women fighting for us in Washington! The Major's time in the military is honorable...he has my vote!

I don't think Mr. Sowers is the person I would want in that position. I'm not all that crazy about JoAnn Emerson either. Mr. Sowers is a liberal and all you have to do it to look at where he stands on the issues and where he gets his backing. Both political parties have let down the American public.

lets be perfectly honest. u want to know whats going on in the wars in iraq and afghanistan, ask the soldiers who have been there. there are plenty of them around the area. what u hear from the generals behind the podiums and politicians behind their desks have been so churched up it is not the real story of whats going on. ask the serviceman who have walked the land and fought the battles. that is the truth that is what is going on over there.

First, I would like to commend Mr. Sowers for his 11 years of service to his country as well as his 2 deployments to Iraq. Yes, it would be nice to have a few more military veterans representing the people in Congress. However, that doesn't mean we have to settle for the tallest pygmy. Mr. Sowers appears to be a typical liberal setting the unguided direction of our foreign policy. What we need is better foreign policy thinking. Unfortunately, his approach is not only misguided and naive but is also dangerous and ultimately destructive. His ridiculous notion that his ego trip to Afghanistan would suddenly solve the War on Terror is shortsighted and irrational. If Mr. Sowers wants to find out about troop morale and saftey all he would need to do is visit a reserve or National Guard unit or a local VFW or American Legion Post. The War on Terror is full of complex problems and you can be assured that the solutions will be just as complex. If only it were as easy as spending some time at a remote outpost and spending a few nights and patrols with our brave soldiers. Our senior commanders and leaders are experienced professionals and are the ones who need to be sitting at the table when discussing U.S. strategy in the War on Terror. Mr. Sowers seems confused about his foreign policy bearings and his strategy ineffectively combines both denial and hope and is divorced from reality. It would be reckless to go on patrol as an observer. This would endanger the lives of our soldiers who would now have to be concerned about the safety of a civilian and it would be a distraction from their primary mission of safe guarding each others lives while confronting enemy combatants. As a commander I would be extremely insulted if some neophyte showed up uninvited at my door and didn't respect my knowledge and experience but instead wanted to visit with some soldiers fresh out of boot camp to develop a U.S. strategy in the War on Terror. This seat-of-the-pants approach is strategicly unsound and dangerously wrong. Mr. Sowers illogical approach would be the equivalent of solving the finacial crisis by spending a few days with some bank tellers. Mr. Sowers, stay out of the play-calling and leave that to people like General McChrystal. He spends an inordinate amount of time submitting accurate and detailed assessments. Needless to say, commanders on the ground would not be supportive of your folly because of its disruption to the chain of command and it would undoubtedly jeopardize mission accomplishment. You have to fully understand the system to be effective and Mr. Sowers clearly doesn't understand how things work. Shame on you. Of all people I expected you to know better.

Sowers looks like a big sissy.

He's not a guy I'd want extracting me from the middle of the jungle... and definitely not a guy I'd want representing me in Congress.