WASHINGTON, EU .- The candidates for U.S. vice president, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden, can not be more different, but when you see the faces in the discussion of two of next October will have one thing in common: both have a son in Iraq.
Track Palin, 19, the eldest son of the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, will be deployed in Iraq from Thursday, the seventh anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Their tasks, as reported by Colonel Burth Thompson, head of the brigade combat where Track carry out his duties include the protection of senior executives.
For its part, Beau Biden, 39 and current Attorney General of Delaware, will be incorporated as part of the National Guard in that state, from three of October.
Biden, considered a possible candidate to succeed his father as senator in Delaware if Democrat wins the nomination, develop roles of military lawyers.
Given that Jimmy McCain, son of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, returned earlier this year of the Arab country, is the curious fact that three of the four members of the formulas in the U.S. election will have or have had children in the war in Iraq.
The only exception is the Democrat presidential candidate, Barack Obama, whose daughters are too young.
During the two party conventions, both as Beau Track-the latter, in common with the rapid-many soldiers went on stage to accompany their parents.
The military commanders have assured that neither receive preferential treatment during the year which is expected to last deployment. "Not at all," said the commander of the company Palin.
"It's a soldier," he said, for his part, Lieutenant Colonel Len Gratteri, spokesman for the Delaware National Guard.
Nothing more opposed to the scene from the film "Fahrenheit 9-11", Michael Moore, in which the filmmaker sought to congressmen to ask them whether they would be willing to one of its sons to fight outside Iraq.
And that that the war in the Arab country has ceased to appear as the main concern of voters in the vote on November 4, has been replaced by issues like the crisis mortgage or progress in the overall economy.
Even so, figures prominently in the manifestos of candidates.
Obama, who has made his opposition to that contest one of its identity election, he was in favour of withdrawing American troops from Iraq as soon as possible, within a year and a half.
For his part McCain, who has defended the position of the White House in Iraq, does not preclude a long stay and assured that before taking a decision consult with military commanders on the ground.
This is not the first time that a candidate or a president, has a son in the front.
The same situation occurred during the tenure of Lyndon B. Johnson, whose son-in-law, Charles Robb, was an official of the Marine Corps in Vietnam. The president Dwight Eisenhower saw his son John combat in Korea.
But it makes the debate on what happens in Iraq affects so deeply personal to the candidates.
The deployment of Beau Biden in Iraq will take place one day after his father and Palin participate in its debate as candidates for the vice presidency, two of October in St. Louis (Missouri).
All eyes will be fixed in that debate, possibly the most anticipated between two aspirants for the vice presidency in recent decades, if not the entire history of U.S. promises and give a lot to talk.
Palin, since its outbreak in the campaign just two weeks ago, has attracted media attention, and has made the Republicans stand out in the polls. Biden is famous for his lips, his scathing and experience.
But, although his discussion is hard, surely find a moment to wish each other the best of luck for their children.
