Well, it might be to distinguish him from Bush, whose war record is not stellarAlso the POTUS is the Commander-In-Chief, so psychologically to voters he (or she :) is in charge of the armed forces. Maybe.
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The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated,
Tue 4 Nov 2008, 22:53,
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were ok then, the queen drove an army lorry in the warand i believe prince charles marched up and down a bit in a uniform.
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god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback,
Tue 4 Nov 2008, 22:59,
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I think they try to give you non-frontline stuffIf you're in the direct line to the throne.
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Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at,
Tue 4 Nov 2008, 23:08,
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That's wrong-headed thinking!Next time we go to war, I want Harry at the very front, on a horse waving a sword. Maybe he'll die, but that's what Princes are for.
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Tue 4 Nov 2008, 23:15,
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